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NEW BRUNSWICK 

NEW JERSEY' 



IN THE 



WORLD WAR 
1917-1918 




COMPILED BY 

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PREFACE 



THESE PAGES WERE COMPILED TO PERPETU- 
ATE THE VALOR AND COURAGE OF THE 
MEN AND WOMEN OF NEW BRUNSWICK WHO 
TOOK PART IN THE GREATEST CONFLICT THAT 
THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN, AND TO EXPRESS 
OUR DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THE NEARLY 
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS 
CITY WHO DONNED THE UNIFORM OF THE UNITED 
STATES AND GATHERED UNDER THE COLORS TO 
OFFER THEIR LIVES THAT THE PRINCIPLES SO DEAR 
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LIEUT. COM. /RTHfT]; CARPENDER LIEUT. COM. FRANK J. DALY 





LIEUT. CRAIG DENMAN, U. S. N. LIEUT. COM. WM. NICHOLAS 





Ciipt. HAROLD S. FLANNAGAN. D.D.S 



Capt. WM. J. CONDON, M.D. 





Capt. HERBERT J. NAFEY. M.D. 



ipt. AT,EX. GRUESSNER, M.D. 




Capt. UALl'H X. I'ERLEE 
Ai-tillery 



Cap;. FLOYD M. CHIDESTER 
Sanitary Coi^ps 




P^DMOND W. BILLETDOUX 
isoii Officer, Q.M.C. 




Capt. \VM. B. TWISS 
Infantry 










Capt. RAYMOND S. PATERSON 
Sanitary Coips 



Capt. WM. P. WHITE 
Sig-nal Coips 





Capt. CHARLES H. REED 
Co. M, 311th Infantrv, 78th Division 



Capt. T. RICHARD A. SMITH 
Co. H, 113th Infantry, 29th Division 





Capt. VIVIAN ROSS 
Ordnance 



Capt. CHARLES F. SEIBERT 
Co. I, 305th Inf., trans, to Co. D, 113th Inf. 



HOW THE GREAT WAR OPENED 




N June 28, 1914, the Archduke Fraacis 
Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the throne 
of Austro-Hungary, visited the city of 
Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia, to take 
part in a public ceremony. As he was 
driving through the town a Bosnian named Cabri- 
novicz threw two bombs at his automobile. Both fell 
short Despite this warning and the supposed excel- 
lence of the Austrian police system, that same after- 
noon a young Bosnian named Gabrilio Prinzip 
succeeded in reaching the steps of his automobile and 
fired two shots from an automatic pistol. His aim 
was only too good. Both the Archduke and his wife, 
a Czech countess whom he had married morgana- 
tically, were killed. 

Prinzip was seized, but was later given the com- 
parative immunity of a prison sentence, while several 
political leaders of the pro-Serbian faction were held 
as the real principals and three of them were exe- 
cuted. The Serbian government immediately ex- 
pressed its horror, and was assured that the affair 
would not disturb the relations between Austria and 
Serbia. The world in general assumed that the inci- 
dent would end where it had begun — in Bosnia. 
Nearly a month passed. Then on July 23d, to the 
amazement and consternation of all Europe, Austria- 
Hungary sent to Serbia the most startling ultimatum 
ever addressed by one free nation to another. It 
demanded: 

Prohibition of publications hostile to Austria-Hun- 
gary; suppression of societies engaged in propaganda 
against Austria-Hungary; elimination from the 
schools of teaching opposed to Austria-Hungary; re- 
moval from the Serbian military service of officers 
whom Austria-Hungary should thereafter name; ac- 
ceptance of Austrian military and judicial commis- 
sions to carry out Austrian demands. 

Press, public meetings, education, military service 
and administration of justice in Serbia must all be 
turned over to Austrian dictation. And Serbia must 
accept these terms within 48 hours. 

Serbia accepted! The terrified little nation quib- 
bled on only two of the demands, conceding the 
others unreservedly and concluded with an offer to 
refer any point not satisfactorily answered to The 
Hagfue tribunal or to the powers. 

And then, on July 28th, Austria declared war, and 
on July 29th the great world war was begun by the 
shelling of Belgrade. 

The alliance between Germany and Austria was 
defensive only, as Italy, the third member of the 
league, later showed. Even had it been otherwise, 
disregard of its obligations for the purpose of pre- 
serving peace could have presented no moral dif- 
ficulties to a nation which was soon to violate equally 
binding treaties in order to carry out her plans of 
war. The slightest word from Germany would huve 



compelled Austria-Hungary to settle her quarrel. As 
a matter of fact, the Austrian government was at 
one time on the point of yielding to reason, but Ger- 
many compelled it to go on. The assassination of 
the Archduke was to be made the pretext for cai-ry- 
ing out plans of military aggression which the Ger- 
man imperial leaders had long been preparing. These 
plans contemplated nothing less than the conquest 
of a large part of Europe, if not of the world. 

Evidence of this accumulated during the progress 
of the war. 

Aug^ust Thyssen, a leading German steel manufac- 
turer, published in 1917 a pamphlet telling about 
several meetings of German men between 1912 and 
1914 at which the Emperor promised them gr«>at 
financial rewards for supporting him in the projected 
war. Thyssen was "personally promised 30,000 acres 
in Australia." Other firms were to have "special 
trading facilities in India, which was to be conquered 
by Germany, be it noted, by the end of 1915." A 
syndicate was formed for the exploitation of Canada." 

Prince Lichnowsky, who was German ambassador 
to Great Britain when the war began, wrote for his 
family archives in 1916 a record, which later gained 
publication, in which he said that Serbia had accepted 
almost the whole ultimatum "under Russian and 
British pressure," and that "Count Berchtold was 
even prepared to satisfy himself with the Serbian 
reply." Lichnowsky added that he had to support in 
London a policy, "the heresy of which I recognized" 
and suggested that the German people were domin- 
ated by "the spirit of Treitschke and of Bemhardi, 
which glorifies war as an end in itself." 

The United States army intelligence service 
learned from German agents arrested in this country 
that on July 10, 1914, a corps of German propagan- 
dists had been sent to neutral countries to develop 
sentiment for Germany in the war which was about 
to begin. 

Henry Morgenthau, United States ambassador to 
Turkey, was told, a few weeks after the war started, 
by both the Austrian and German ambassadors at 
Constantinople, that war had been decided on at a 
conference in Berlin early in July- 

This was why when Russia called her reserves to 
the colors on the day following Austria's declaration 
of war on Serbia, Germany immediately began to 
mobilize and on August 1st declared war on Russia. 
It was not on the Russian frontier, however, that 
Germany massed her troops. France was bound to 
Russia by a treaty of alliance; and, before sending 
her ultimatum to Russia, Germany demanded of 
France whether she would remain neutral. France 
ordered mobilization, but directed her troops to keep 
ten miles inside the French border. Nevertheless, cav- 
ahy skii-mishe? occurred on both the French ard Rus- 
sian frontiers on the following day, August 2d, and 

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on the same day German troops entered the neutral 
duchy of Luxemburg, which could only protest. The 
formal declaration of war on France was made on 
August 3d. 

The first and greatest horrors of war, however, 
were to fall, not on Serbia or Russia or France, but 
on a nation which was absolutely inoffensive and un- 
concerned in the quarrel. On July 31st, before any 
declaration of war except that of Austria had oc- 
curred, three German army corps started for the 
Belgian border, and on August 2d the amazed and 
frightened government of Belgium received an ulti- 
matum demanding the right of passage for the Ger- 
man army through Belgian territory. The particular 
wickedness of this note lay in the concluding para- 
graph, which read: "Should Belgium oppose the 
German troops and particularly should she throw 
difficulties in the way of their march by a resistance 
of the fortresses on the Meuse, or by destroying rail- 
ways, roads, tunnels or other similar works, Germany 
will, to her regret, be compelled to consider Belgium 
as an enemy." 

Germany was not content to ask the privilege of 
sending troops through Belgium and to offer alliance 
and protection against invasion by France, which 
she professed to believe was threatened, though 
France had just given the most positive assurance 
to the contrary. She was not even satisfied to an- 
nounce her purpose to move through Belgium and 
leave the question of Belgium's attitude for the fu- 
ture. She placed Belgium at the outset in the posi- 
tion of a subject province to be subdued if it dared 
to resist. In view of the later attitude of the Ger- 
man leaders, there can be little doubt that this note 
was written in the expectation and hope that Belgium 
would resist, since that would further the project 
of annexation. 

Germany's course violated written as well as moral 
law. The perpetual neutrality of Belgium had been 
solemnly guaranteed by a treaty between the five 
great powers, including Prussia, as early as 1831, and 
had several times been reaffirmed. Chancellor von 
Bethmann-Hollweg frankly admitted in his speech 
to the rcich.stag on August 4th that Germany had 
acted "contrary to the dictates of international law." 
The excuse offered was "military necessity." 

When the British ambassador at B^rMn gave warr- 
ing of the consequence of violating Be'gium's neu- 
trality, the German foreign minister, Von Jagow, 
heatedly referred to the treaty as a "scrap of paner." 
Great Britain's attitude up to this time had been 
that of a mediator seeking to avert the general! 
calamity. She had a friendly undorstanding with 
France and Russia, but was not allied with thom by 
treaty. It is probable that even when Premier As- 
quith and his associates sent an ultimatum to Ger- 
many demanding that Belgium's neutrality be 
respected, they cherished a strong hope that their 
threat would compel Germany to pause. But if so, 

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the hope was disappointed, and on August 4th the 
was became general with Germany and Austria- 
Hungary on one side and Great Britain, France, Bel- 
gium, Russia and Serbia on the other. Montenegro 
came to the aid of Serbia four days later. 

The events of 1915, which had most influence on 
the outcome of the war, though not in the way which 
the Germans expected, were the operations of sub- 
marines. On February 4th, the German government 
declared all the waters around the British Isles a 
war zone and gave notice that neutral as well as 
enem.y shipping was liable to be sunk. This aroused 
the United States. The President immediately 
notified Germany that she would be held to "strict 
accountability." 

The seriousness of the submarine threat soon Be- 
came apparent when the British steamer "Fa'aba" 
was sunk on March 28th in Saint George's Chnnnel, 
drowning 111 of the passengers an! crew, including 
one American. Soon nfterwjrd the Aireican steamer 
"Gushing" was attacked and damaged by a German 
ail-plane in the Norlh Sea a'd a litlo later the "Gulf- 
light" was torpedoed off the Scilly i lands. 

The climax came on May 7, however, when the 
great passenger liner "Lusitania" was torpedoed off 
the south coast of Ireland with a loss of 1,153 men, 
women and children, of whom 114 were Americans. 
Indignation blazed to a white heat. It was thought 
that the United States would declare w»ar at once. 
The President called on Germany to disavow the act, 
adding that the United States would not "omit any 
word or any act necessary to the perfonnance of its 
sacred duty" of maintaining the rights of its citi- 
zens- The Germans, however, made a conciliatory 
answer, and although the steamer "Nebraska" was 
soon afterward torpedoed, but not sunk, the incident 
was allowed to dwindle into a series of inconclusive 
diplomatic notes, only to flame up again when, on 
August 19th, the liner "Arabic" was sunk off Ireland 
with a loss of 44 passengers and crew, including 
two Americans. 

More notes followed, culminating on October 5th 
in a disavowal by the German government of the act 
of the submarine commander, an offer to pay indem- 
nity and a promise that no similar incident would 
occur again. 

Little more than a month afterward, the "Arabic" 
tragedy was repeated in the Mediterranean when 
the Italian liner "Ancona" was sunk with a loss of 
more than 200 lives, including nine Americans. The 
responsibility for this act, however, was as.sumed 
by the Austrian government, which, after another 
series of notes, duplicated the German promise and 
then broke it on December 30th by sinking the liner 
"Persia" with a loss of 392 lives, including an Amer- 
ican consul. 

Public indignation was further aroused by the dis- 
covery of indisputable evidence that, while this con- 
troversy was going on, plots to foment strikes, 



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destroy munition plants and commit other acts 
against the peace of the United States were being 
directed from the German and Austrian embassies. 
The recall of the Austrian ambassador, Dr. Dumba, 
was demanded in September, and the German mili- 
tary and naval attaches, Captain Von Uapen and 
Captain Boy-Ed, were similarly sent home in 
December. 

Nevertheless, the government accepted the Ger- 
man word, and the country was kept out of war for 
the time being, even refraining from beginning any 
active preparation. The "Lusitania" sinking, how- 
ever, had turned against the Teutonic powers a 
greater force than cannon or armed battalions. It 
had aroused the conscience of civilization. Their 
every word and act thereafter were faced by the 
silent, accusing fingers of drowned children. 

"ILS NE PASSERONT PAS" 

The battle cry of the French poilus at Verdun, 
"They shall not pass," was descriptive of the entire 
war in 1916. Not only at Verdun, but at Ypres, in 
the North Sea and in the Italian Trentino, they did 
not pass. And the successful counter-blows on the 
Somme, in Galicia and the Caucasus and on the 
Isonzo gave offensive emphasis to the power of the 
Allies. Nowhere except in the detached campaign 
against Roumania had the Gennans been able 
to repeat their successes of 1915. If the Rus- 
sians could have continued to develop the recupera- 
tive strength which they had shown in 1916, the 
campaigns of 1917 might well have brought a de- 
cisive Allied victory. But intrigue and treachery 
had been at work in Russia. 

It was probably a knowledge of the successes of 
their agents in Russia and an expectation that the 
betrayal of Roumania was to be followed by a sep- 
arate peace with the Czar's government which gave 
the Germans confidence to break their word to the 
United States for the third time. On January 31st, 
they gave notice that after February 1st they would 
resume submarine ruthlessness. This was a con- 
temptuous violation of both the "Sussex" and the 
"Arabic" pledges as well as of a special pledge, given 
in the "Frye" case, not to sink American .ships. 
The Germans may have believed that the influence 
of their friends in American politics and the sts-onjc 
pacifist sentiment in the Southern and Western parts 
of the country, which in the winter of 1916 had 
nearly put through Congress th^ McLemore resolu- 
tion forbidding Americans to travel on foreign ships 
and had made a powerful appeal for an embargo on 
the export of munitions, would prevent the United 
States from entering the war under any provocation. 
They undoubtedly thought that, in any event, the 
Uinted States, having made no preparation, would 
be unable to send troops to Europe in time to give 
effective help to the Allies. 

This time the Germans did not attempt to hold off 
the United States with diplomatic notes and new 



promises, although given ample opportunity to tlo 
so. President Wilson, when he severed diplomatic 
relations on February 3d, still declared his unwill- 
ingness to believe that the Germans would actually 
do as they threatened. The sinking of several ships, 
including two American merchantmen and the liner 
"Laconia," by which three American lives were lost, 
removed all doubt on that point. Feeling was further 
intensified by the discovery of a secret message from 
the German foreign minister, Zimmermann, to the 
German minister to Mexico, directing him to propose 
to Mexico an alliance with Germany against the 
United States and that Mexico should conquer Texas, 
Arizona and New Mexico and should attempt to draw 
Japan into the plan. The President then, on Feb- 
ruary 26th, proposed a resort to "armed neutrality," 
asking authority to arm American ships for defense, 
but again expressed the hope that it would "not 
be necessary to put armed forces anywhere into 
action." The opposition of twelve senators prevented 
the granting of this authority before the expiration 
of Congress on March 4th, but the President pro- 
ceeded to arm merchant ships under his general 
powers and called a special session of Congress to 
meet on April 2d. More ships had been sunk in 
the meantime, and there was no further hesitation. 
When the President asked Congress to declare war, 
however, he based his action, not alone on the special 
grievances of the United Staates, but on the gen- 
eral course of the German government, which he 
called a "challenge to all mankind." He denounced 
the German autocracy as "the natural foe of liberty" 
and asked for action because "the world must be 
made safe for democracy." 

The declaration of war was adopted on April 6th 
with six opposition votes in the Senate and 50 in 
the House. 

In addition to providing for a large increase in 
the Regular ai-my and National Guard by voluntary 
enlistment, a general conscription of all men between 
the ages of 21 and 31 was ordered. Money was 
raised by popular bond issue, and war activities be- 
gan on an enormous scale. A naval contingent 
reached Great Britain on May 4th and at once began 
patrol work against submarines. General John G. 
Pershing was appointed to command the army. He 
landed in France with his staff on June 13th. The 
first contingent of regular troops arrived on the 26th. 
More than a year passed, however, before the United 
States began to take an active part at the front. 
Cuba followed the course of the United States at 
once. Brazil immediately severed diplomatic rela- 
tions, but did not declare war till October. Bolivia, 
Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador and Santo Domingo either 
severed diplomatic relations or otherwise indicated 
their sympathy with the United States. Siam de- 
clared war in July, and China in August. Panama, 
Hayti, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nica- 
ragua all declared war. Even the little negro re- 
public of Liberia came in. The worid was at war. 
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New Eirisimswklk's Abswcit fto ftlhie Call 




On April 2, 1917, President Wilson appeared be- 
fore Congress and advised a declaration of war 
against Germany. Acting upon this advice the 
Senate, on April 4th, and the House of Representa- 
tives, on April 6th, each by an overwhelming vote, 
passed a resolution declaring that a state of war 
existed between the Imperial German Government 
and the United States. President Wilson signed the 
resolution on the same day and thereupon immediate- 
ly issued a proclamation heralding the news to the 
people. 

For more than a half century, barring the short 
conflict with Spain, the United States had been at 
peace. There seemed no danger of war. The United 
States was so gigantic, so powerful, so isolated, that 
nothing threatened it. There could be no war- 
On the whole Western Hemisphere there was no 
worthy foe for America; therefore there could be no 
war — for it was unthinkable that the United States 
would plunge into a war in Europe; unthinkable that 
the Republic would form an alliance with any nation 
of the world to fight against another nation. That 
would be contrary to the traditions of America, 
contrary to the fundamental principles of our exis- 
tence, contrary to the doctrine of every President 
from George Washington to Woodrow Wilson. It 
seemed certain that there was no danger of our 
being forced into the war. And Mr. Wilson ran for 
President on the platform, "He kept us out of war." 
That was his watchwoi-d in 1916. That battle cry re- 
elected him President of the United States. 

Therefore on April 6, 1917, when the declaration 

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of war came, the people scarcely comprehended th« 
gravity of the situation. Nobody believed, even then, 
that our boys would be sent to the battlefields of 
Europe. It was to be a sort of negative warfare; 
so it seemed. Diplomatic relations were to be ; evered 
and moral and financial assistance was to be lent to 
the Allies, but the people could not realize that their 
sons were to be drafted from the field and factory 
and sent to the trenches in France. 

But in six weeks from the day that war was 
declared. President Wilson signed the draft act- The 
situation began to grow serious. The stem hand of 
discipline had appeared and the people saw that 
the government was in eamest. The registrations 
and drafting of men commenced. The National 
colors were flowing full to the breeze there to remain 
until the Hun was defeated. 

.\t this point the nation began to come into con- 
tact with the realities of the war. Farmer boys left 
their ploughs in the field, mechanics dropped their 
tooLs at the bench, bookkeepers closed their ledgers 
and accounts, students walked out from the college 
doors, young professional men closed their offices and 
in every phase of life the vocations of peace were 
abandoned for the duties of war. The streets were 
filled with the tread of marching troops and scenes 
of parting were witnessed on every hand. 

From the very beginning of hostilities in Europe, 
long before the submarine outrages at sea, the pub- 
lic sentiment of America turned strongly against 
Germany. Why this w&s so it is not necessary to 
argue — it was so. This feeling became greatly inten- 
sified by the sinking of the Lusitania. A wave of 



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indignation swept over America and the world. The 
people took sides positively with the Allies, nine- 
tenths of them. Then came the destruction of the 
Arabic and the Sussex and the rapid aggression 
upon American shipping, so that the overwhelming 
preponderance of public opinion was against Ger- 
many. 

There were many who had ties that bound them to 
their Fatherland and the Central Powers- But sud- 
denly the bugle sounded and the American flag wais 
unfurled in war. The honor of the Stars and Stripes 
was challenged. Then patriotism, the great 
dormant American instinct, leaped into being. 
All the ancient ties were forgotten. America 
was in the war. That was enough. All other con- 
siderations disappeared. The summons was issued 
and every race, color and creed responded. Those 
maligning the Kaiser, those friendly to the Central 
Powers, those native to the soil of this continent, 
those bom across the seas — the Yankees, the French, 
the Poles, the Irish, the Swedes, the English, the 
Italians, the Africans, the Germans, the Chinamen 
and the Japs were assembled soldiers of the Republic. 
All true Americans cemented into one body and 
for one common cause — to win the war. 

While all this was taking place in the Nation, 
Mayor Farrington and his band of faithful advisers 
were hard at work making every preparation for 
the protection of New Brunswick and its citizens. 

On April 2, a proclamation was issued by Mayor 
Farrington on account of the critical international 
crisis, assuring the foreig:n bom residents every 
protection as long as they remained loyal. The 
proclamation follows and was printed in six different 
languages, English, German, Hungarian, Polish 
Italian and Greek. 

PROCLAMATION 

"I, Edward F. Farrington, Mayor of New Bruns- 
wick, deem it wise in the present crisis, in this formal 
proclamation to assure all residents of foreign birth 
that even in the event of the United States becoming 
involved actively in the great European war, no 
citizen of any foreign power, resident of New Bruns- 
wick, need fear any invasion of his personal or 
property rights as he goes peacefully about his busi- 
ness and conducts himself in a law abiding manner. 

"The United States has never, in any war, con- 
fiscated the property of any foreign resident unless 
by his owm hostile acts he made it necessary. 

"I take this formal means of declaring to all 
foreign-bom residents that they will be protected in 
fhe ownership of their property and money, and that 
they will be free from molestation so long as they 
obey the laws of the State and Nation and the 
ordinances of the city. 

"I urgently request that all our people refrain 
from public discussion of questions involved in the 
present crisis and maintain a calm and considerate 



attitude toward everyone without regard to their 
nationality. 

"EDWARD F. Farrington, Mayor. 
"New Brunswick, N. J., April 2, 1917." 

During the entire period of the war there was 
not the least sign of disloyalty shown by any of 
the inhabitants of New Branswick. At the same 
time no chance was taken. The Home Defense 
league was formed. The water plant, the bridges, 
factories and public buildings were put under guard. 
The United States Secret Service had a central office 
located in the Post Office under the direction of the 
Navy, and what they did not know about the citizens 
of this vicinity did not amount to much. It must b« 
said for the men that were in charge of the local 
office that they were of the highest type of citizen- 
ship and when the time came to close the office it 
was with regret that our citizens saw them depart. 

Spies and rumors of spies, bomb plots and anti- 
American propaganda had a real meaning for the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and one of the 
points most carefully watched was its great bridge 
across the Raritan River between New Brunswick 
and Highland Park. 

The first real sign of the threatening war was the 
placing of guards and the building of guard houses 
at each end of the bridge, on the tow path and on 
the bridge proper. The honor of being the real 
pioneers in the actual protection of the city fell to 
these guards who went on duty early in March, 1917. 

They were relieved April 3, by a detail of thirty- 
five men from Co. H, 5th Reg. N. G., N. J., from 
Orange, N. J. They were encamped at Buccleuch 
Park. They were later replaced by a detachment 
from the 15th colored regiment of New York. When 
these men were called into active service the rail- 
road company took over the guarding of its whole 
system. 

In compiling this record of New Brunswick's part 
in the war every effort was made to list all the men 
that entered the service from this city and Highland 
Park. The names of the drafted men from Local 
Board No. 1 is complete. The enlisted men who were 
under or over the draft age or entered the service 
before the first registration were difficult to find 
and a few may be missing from the list If so, it is 
not the fault of the compiler as every means was 
taken to notify the missing that their names were 
needed to complete the list. There is no official list 
either of the drafted or enlisted men from Highland 
Park but through the efforts of Mrs. Alfred S. Tin- 
dell of Highland Park, and the files of the local 
papers, a very complete roster was made. 

The Honor Roll is complete, as extra care was 
taken to secure the names of those who died in the 
service. The most remarkable feature of the com- 
piling of this list was the lack of interest taken by 
the families of the boys that died in service, only 
seven of them making any effort to give conect 
data- The same is to be said of many of the boy« 
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who returned and did not take the trouble to have 
their names repistei-ed. 

Of the hundreds of men who went to war from 
New Brunswick not one lost an arm or leg. The 
most seriously injured was Captain William J. Con- 
don, wounded in action less than three hundred yards 
from the German trenches while giving surgical aid 
to the wounded. Captain Charles H. Reed and private 
William Manley sustained severe wounds in the 
body and legs. In the Navy, William V. Kibbie lost 
an eye at target practice in England. A number of 
others were wounded or gassed but so severely as 
to cause a permanent disability. 

New Brunswick had the distinction of being the 
only city in the United States in which a Major- 
General, on active sei-vice, led a parade of discharged 
service men. 

Lieutenant Commander Arthur S. Carpender com- 
maned the Fanning when she captured the Ger- 
man submarine 11-58 off the coast of Queenstown and 
took four officers and thirty-five men prisoner, the 
first to be taken by the United States Navy. For 
this action Carpender was recommended by the 
British Admiralty for the D. S. O., which was subse- 
quently conferred upon him by the King at a private 
audience at Buckingham Palace. Later he was 
granted the D. S- C. by Congress. 

New Brunswick in a little more than two years, 
contributed $413,240.80 to war relief and war relief 
campaigns. This only includes contributions for 
organized campaigns conducted in the city. Of 
course, the Liberty Loan drives and the War Sav- 
ings Stamp sales — being investments — are not con- 
sidered, although to many it was a sacrifice to sub- 
scribe as heavily as they did for the Government 
bonds. 

The people learned to give during the war and 
large sums were raised in "quiet" campaigns. For 
instance, at the beginning of the war $16,400.00, 
was raised at a meeting held at the residence of Mr. 
Sidney B. Carpender, ex-President Taft being the 
speaker of the evening. This was for the National 
War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. 

In the earlier campaigns it was no small task to 
collect money. As the war progressed the people 
gave to all drives without a question. The hardest 
di-ive was the first Red Cross, and the one that the 
people gave up to the easiest was the second Red 
Cross. This appeal came at a crucial time — in May, 
1918 — ^when soldiers were being nished to France 
at the rate of hundreds of thousands a month. The 
Germans appeared stronger than ever. Just as the 
Red Cross campaign opened the Seventy-eighth Divi- 
sion left Camp Dix and brought the war home to 



New Bnanswick. Never before was there a more 
generous response with contributions. 

The largest campaign was the United War Work 
in which $n4,16-J.29 was subscribed. The city over 
subscribed its quota in every drive. 

The average number of subscribers to all of the 
campaigns was about 10,000, and as more than 
$400,000 was collected for the war drives it shows 
an average of more than $400 given by each sub- 
scriber, or placing the war population of the city at 
40,000, it means that every man, woman and child 
gave up about $100, a record to be proud of. 

Retrospective of war time campaigns a word is 
not amiss concerning a few New Brunswickers 
whose personal application to the task was a feature 
of every drive. First place must be given to the 
late Mayor Edward F. Farrington, who will always 
have the distinction of being known as the War 
Mayor of New Brunswick. To the work coming to 
him as the city executive in the many different direc- 
tions caused by the world-wide war he devoted his 
time and brain unstintedly and gave to the service 
a patriotism that was pure, self-sacrificing and noble. 
AS President of the Patriotic Force of New Bruns- 
wick, as President of the Home Defense League, and 
as Chaii-man of the Soldiers' Farewell and Welfare 
Committee, he extended his labors night and day to 
the breaking point of endui-ance, but he never stop- 
ped and could not be stopped because his rich heart 
was absolutely engrossed in the America that he 
loved and his sympathies for his own boys who had 
offered their all for their country had become the 
passion of his life. 

Next comes Henry G. Parker, to whose executive 
ability was due the success of the First and Second 
Liberty Loans, of which he was the Chairman. It 
was he who organized the workers that later put 
over all the drives. As Chairman of the Third and 
Fourth Liberty I.oans, James W. Johnson gave the 
best that was in him— and that is saying as much 
as a whole volume. 

Charles A. MacCormack, after .serving his 
country in Washington, assumed the Chairmanshin 
of the Victory Loan and with his usual energy put it 
"away over the top." The smooth oratory and fine 
hand of Peter F. Daly was forever in evidence when 
needed to make the war a success. The same may be 
said of Dr. Austin Scott, Commissioner John J. Mor- 
rison, Robert E- Ross, James K. Rice, Jr., Sidney B. 
Carpender, Robert C. Nicholes, Robert W. Johnson, 
Dr. E. I. Cronk, J. Keamey Rice, Sr., and Elmer E. 
Connelly. There were many others but these were 
the towering lights who led that others might follow. 



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IN THE WORLD WAR 



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Two weeks before the United States broke off 
diplomatic relations with the Imperial German Gov- 
ernment there was no class of Americans who ap- 
peared, to the casual eye, more unconcerned with 
war and its alarums than a certain proportion of 
tlie male population of these parts that was wont to 
congregate one night a week in the National Guard 
armories, there to don olive drab and spend an hour 
or so practicing the intricacies of fall in, right dress, 
front, squads right, march, etc. They seemed to 
be m the mood to take things as they came and 
not fret over what the future held. Half the world 
was at war and America was fast drifting into it, 
worthy citizens were crjdng out for retaliation for 
Germany's insults, the nation was working itielf up 
into a just rage. But these undisturbed young men 
went their way in unruffled calm. Time enough to 
get warmed up when the call came. 

These seemingly nonchalant fellows were the men 
of the National Guard of New Jersey. They were 
the men who responded eagerly enough when their 
call was sounded, and who, with recruits and replace- 
ments swelling their number, and welded into the 
Twenty-ninth Division, hammered the Hun with all 
their might and nobly did their part of the task 
that befell the ai-my of the United States in the 
forests and ravines of the Northeast of France. 

The break with Germany was announced to Con- 
gress, February 3, 1917, and the evening papers 
spread the news throughout the country. Disap- 
peared then the manner that had made the National 
Guard seem apathetic and indifferent. No flaring 
patriotism took its place, no frenzy of enthusiasm 
begot in them an up-and-at-'em bravado. They 
simply dropped into the amiory to see what was do- 
ing, and hung around awaiting the call they expected. 

The night of February 3 there came the forerunner 
of the actual declaration of war in the shape of a 
telegram from the War Department notifying the 
adjutants general of the states to take steps to insure 
the safety of ai-mories, arsenals and store houses 
within their military jurisdiction. The notification 
found the New Jersey National Guard ready, its 
mobilization plans all prepared and the men await- 
ing only the order calling them out. 

On March 28, 1917, the War Department ordered 
the mobilizing of the National Guard for police duty. 
Company H was notified that afternoon at 2 o'clock 
and were placed under arms. Later the members were 



examined and those that passed were, on March 31. 
mustered into the Federal service. 

On Tuesday, April 6, 1917, amid the cheers of a 
huge crowd that completely filled the station plat- 
form. Company H of the Second Regiment of New 
Jersey departed on the 1.14 train over the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad for Trenton, and thence to Camden 
where they were detailed to points to be guarded. 
The company was made up of 68 men under the 
command of Captain J. Bayard Kirkpatrick. 

Orders to move were received by Captain Kirk- 
patrick early in the morning and at 9 o'clock the 
men were informed and instructions issued to make 
immediate preparations for departure at 1.14 o'clock. 
The men were permitted to return to their homes to 
bid their relatives a last farewell and were back at 
the armory again at 11 o'clock. 

At this hour final orders were imparted to the 
men and at 11.15 o'clock they were sent to the mes» 
hall and reported back at 12 o'clock. With all their 
equipment the men proceeded to the Pennsylvania 
Railroad station and were cheered enthusiastically 
all along the line. 

Huge crowds assembled at the railroad plaza and 
wished the boys the best of luck. When the train 
was about to pull out, wives were embraced in their 
husbands' ai-ms. To some anxious hearts there came 
the fear that sons and husbands were already start- 
ing off for France. 

As the hour approached for leaving, anxious 
mothers and wives overwhelmed the telephone at the 
armory seeking information on the movement of 
Company H. Some anxious mother wanted to say a 
last good-bye to her son, others wanted to impart a 
last word of good fortune before the final word which 
would take the men out of this city was given. 

Thus war was brought to the city's doors. It had 
seemed such a far-off thing — thousands of miles 
away; something associated with strange foreign 
names like Bapaume and Przemysl. 

But here it was Good Friday, the same day that 
war was formally declared on Germany, that the 
bitterness of war was brought right to our own doors. 
Here it was with young men in khaki and loaded 
rifles parading our stieets to the railroad station to 
be detailed to active work. 

Face to face with the facts. New Brunswickern to 
whom war had been so far off and apparently so 
impossible, began seriously to look into the future. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



ROSTER 

The following shows the roster of Company H while the company was at Anniston, 
Alabama, shortly before sailing for overseas duty : 

Captain J. BAYARD KIRKPATRICK, 
First Lieut., RICHARD A. SMITH 
Second Lieut., FREDERICK T. HAMER, 
First Sergeant, WALTER H. SMITH, 
Supply Sergeant, HARRY KRAMER. 



SERGEANTS: 
Edwin F. Ellison 
Rudolph C. Nordhouse 
Charles H. Skidmore 
John H. Hoagland 
Otto F. Wolff 
Merrill H. Morris 

CORPORALS: 
Russell B. Howell 
Stephen C. Austin 
Albert E. Davis, Jr. 
George H. Meirose 
Charles A. Wissert 
Charles Morris 
William Boschong 
Ralph Solomon 
Charles S. Smith 
William C. Hampton 
Theodore Lachenmayer 
COOKS: 
Arthur V. Miller 
George L. Burt 

Mechanic — 
Peter F. Copeland 
BUGLERS: 
Adelbert J. Heim 
Roy F. Fellers 
PRIVATES, First Class: 
Edward L. Breen 
Bertram E. ordo 
Charles S. Dixon 
James J. Hannan 
Edward S. Hoe, Jr. 
Lester Irons 
Howard Louyinger 



William B. Manley 
Leroy H. Morris 
John E. Ross 
Joseph Russo 
Chester C. Seemann 
William A. Smith, Jr. 
William Stuart 
James J. Staudt 
Benjamin H. Tallman 
LeRoy E. Tappen 
John H. Tunison 
Russell B. Walker 
George H. Wood 

PRIVATES: 
Charles J. Anderson 
Thaddeus A. Anzolut 
Walter L. Barr 
Clarence Bailey 
William J. Bates 
Joseph Bernard 
Philip H. Breece 
Carl J. Buckelew 
Martin J. Burke 
Albert E. Carlson 
Robert E. Casey 
William W. Cathcart 
Woodbum T. Covert 
Voorhees Dean 
William E. Dunham 
Frank J. Eckert 
LeRoy Ervin 
Harold P. Ellison 
John J. Ferrin 
Thomas A. Fullerton 
George Gamble 
Edward T. Garrigan 
Myles V. Garrigan 



Arthur L. Gowen 
Austin Hagaman 
Carl A. Hokanson 
Abraham Hortz 
Frederick L. Jemee 
Joseph LaPlace 
Edward L. Linke 
William H. Lorch 
Lester W. McGinnis 
Joseph V. McGovem 
John F, McKeon 
John A. Manning 
Oscar W. Marks, 
Frederick W. Matthies 
Louis Matthies 
John H. Merritt 
William A. Merritt 
James E. Mulvey 
Thomas H. G. O'Connor 
Frederick W. Obrowsky 
John Olesnewicz 
William N. Ramponi 
Anthony Silzer 
John J. Selesky 
John J. Slavin 
William V. Smith 
George H. Stillwell 
Stephen J. Stevenson 
William D. Tallman, Jr. 
Harry Tatarsky 
Harold Van Liew 
Herbert F. R. Van Nuis 
Alonzo F. Warren 
John F. Williams 
Leo Witkowski 
Ernest Zogg. 
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Company H and the new National Army men 
arrived in town on September 14, 1917, in full fight- 
ing array. Their springy steps and broad smiles, 
as they marched through the streets upon their 
arrival, attested to the joy in their hearts over the 
chance of getting into service. As the boys of Com- 
pany H proceeded to the Armory, they were greeted 
enthusiastically. 

Captain J. Bayard Kirkpatrick, First Lieutenant 
Richard S. Smith and Second Lieutenant Fred Hamer 
marched at the head of the local unit. The boys 
were bronzed by the several weeks of camp life, and 
marched in perfect alignment. 

An eleventh hour shift in the plans brought Com- 
pany H back to this city at 9.42 o'clock over the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, but even with the sudden 
change of plans, the citizenry of New Brunswick 
turned out strong to bid the boys welcome home. 
When the train pulled into the station, the platform 
was crowded with relatives and friends of the boys. 

Both the Public Service and the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road officials refused to transport the boys of Com- 
pany H at no expense to the committee from Tren- 
ton to New Brunswick, even though the Public Utility 
Commission had granted them a permit to do so. 

It was thought that either of these corporations 
were patriotic enough to waive the small expense at- 
tached, but they even refused to consider the request 
of the local committee. As a result, the committee 
had to charter a special car on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad to convey the boys to this city, at an 
expense of $177.50. 

Mayor Edward F. Farrington with a committee, 
composed of John P. Wall, Francis M. Yorston, Mil- 
ton Strauss, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Joseph Snyder, W- 
F. Thomas, Chester Wood, Harry Silverstein, John 
Payton and George Cathers, met the boys at the 
railroad station and escorted them to the Armory 
on Codwise avenue, where the Mayor welcomed the 
boys. 

As the boys swung along the streets on their way 
to the armory, they were loudly cheered. The pupils 
of the Livingston school were dismissed to enable 
them to cheer the boys, as they passed the school. 
When the boys marched out of the railroad station 
there was a bedlam of noise, with the cheering of the 
crowd and the shrieking claxons. 

Headed by the Second Regiment band and bugle 
corps and Mayor's committee the boys paraded down 
Albany street to George, to Livingston avenue to 
Handy street and thence to the Armory. Upon their 



arrival at the barracks, the soldier boys found their 
entrance blocked by the huge crowd. 

The boys were surely a happy lot They were 
glad to get back to their old home town and as 
soon as they were dismissed, there was a merry 
scramble for the door. The boys were granted their 
freedom until 3:30 o'clock when they mobilized at 
tue armory for the parade. 

The boys had nothing but praise for their company 
and regimental officers. Not a single complaint was 
heard and on all sides the boys expressed gratifica- 
tion over the interest manifested in them by New 
Brunswick citizens. 

MAYOR'S WELCOME 

Mayor Farrington in welcoming the boys said: 

"We are proud of 'Our Boys.' You are going 
from us to put down a force that has flooded the 
world with blood. You are coming back to us, but 
you are not coming back until you have finished 
your job. Your bravery and valor will speed the 
end. 

"As Mayor of New Brunswick, I welcome you back 
to this historic old city, whose revolutionary tradi- 
tions are known far and wide. The citizens of New 
Brunswick have prepared a celebration in your honor, 
for they have the sincerest love for you and pray and 
when this bloody conflict is at an end, you will come 
back to us. 

"To Captain Kirkpatrick and officers of Company 
H, and above all, to the men in the ranks, in the name 
of the people of New Brunswick, I bid you Godspeed. 
You are worthy defenders of the righteous cause to 
which our nation is committed. 

"The love and hopes and prayers of a great people 
go with you. Thousands of us, men and women, put 
our trust in you. Every day we shall look for news 
of you. Every day we shall know you are bearing 
yourselves as soldiers of the Republic, doing your part 
to right a great wrong. We cannot fail because we 
know you and the others of our great army. 

"May the holy cause for which you contend pre- 
vail and may the Almighty in His infinite mercy 
bring you home to us. 

PARADERS MOVE 

Early afternoon, the blaring of trumpets could be 
heard, as the various organizations began to mobilize 
at the concentration point. Practically every society 
in the city met at 3 o'clock at their respective club 
rooms and proceeded to the comer of Handy street 
and Codwise avenue, where they were assigned their 
position in the procession. 

Forty-one 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



The big demonstration held in honor of the New 
Brunswick soldier boys was a spectacle, and will long 
live in the minds of every person who was fortunate 
enough to witness it. 

The one predominating feature was the crowd that 
turned out to view the parade and to bid the boys 
of Company H and the new National Army lads 
Godspeed. There have been big crowds before — when 
the city bade farewell to the boys in blue who went 
forth to engage in the grim Civil War and again 
when the old Company D marched away in 1898 
and later returned, but the city never witnessed such 
a tremendous outpouring of people. All New Bruns- 
wick turned out to bid good-bye to its gallent soldier 
troops, who were due to be projected into the most 
devastating war this world has ever seen. 

As numberless as the sands upon the seashore 
appeared to be the crowd that surged the parade 
route and jammed the main arteries of the city. It 
was a grave and reverent throng and for the first 
time, the citizens of this city were made to realize 
of what a serious job the nation had on its hands 
and the celebration was almost a rite. There was 
an unexpected solemnity about the affair that can 
not soon be forgotten. 

All along the line of march, faces drawn and 
anxious, or eagerly expectant, or smiling were all 
turned in the one direction, scanning other faces, as 
the boys of Company H followed by the new Na- 
tional Army boys paraded by. In the windows, the 
trees, along stoops, on balconies, wherever a foothold 
offered, there were people and more people, eyes 
all bent in one direction. There were many flags, 
a few waving in time to the music, but most of them 
held rigidly still while men and women gazed silently 
on the vast spectacle. 

To be sure there was cheering as the boys marched 
through the lanes of thousands of people on George 
street, but those who had anticipated that the young 
soldiers of New Brunswick would march through the 
streets to the accompaniment of tumultuous cheer- 
ing found themselves treated to a lesson in the 
phsychology of the crowds. It was apparent that 
too many in the crowds jamming the sidewalks had 
personal interest in the soldiers passing by to permit 
tne cheers and good-natured chaffing that generally 
characterizes a parade was lacking. 

The strange silence of the crowds was puzzling 
until one trailed along with the parade for a time and 
observed what many of the spectators were doing. 
Every few feet there was a weeping woman. Fath- 
ers, too, who were too old to fight, but had son.s in the 
ranks of the new National Army and Company H 
were seen to pull out their handkerchiefs and mop 
their faces and eyes as their sons passed by. 

"There goes my boy" many women cried forth 
with brave efforts to voice the exultation they felt, 
as the gallant bays in khaki, looking straight ahead, 

Foitrty-two 



marched along seemingly as unconcerned as though 
they were but on parade in time of peace. As the 
boys swung along the line of march, many weeping 
mothers and sisters waved their tear-wet handker- 
chiefs at them and in several instances, flags were 
showered on them. 

Although the tumultuous cheering was lacking, 
the blaze of patriotism touched every heart. There 
are those in New Brunswick who have been wont to 
give expression to the opinion that this nation had 
lost its ancient soul in the mad and selfish chase of 
the almighty dollar, but as the soldier boys of our 
city marched by, this sentiment was all changed and 
replaced by a feeling that the old fires were aflame 
again even as they flamed in the days of peril long 
ago. 

Officially the day was a holiday. Merchants, bank- 
ers, manufacturers and professional men made it so. 
All the big stores were closed in the afternoon and 
most of the manufactories ceased operation either at 
noon or the middle of the afternoon. Plenty of time 
was given everyone to get out on the streets, for the 
parade didn't start until 4 o'clock. 
ONE MISHAP 

The only mishap to mar the whole celebration was 
the late arrival of the boys from Camp Dix, Wrights- 
town. The boys were brought back from Wrights- 
town by automobile, and in passing through Mon- 
mouth Junction one of the machines broke down. 
The other machines stopped and every effort was 
made to repair the broken machine, but to no avail. 
A hurry call had to be sent to this city for another 
machine to convey the men to town. 

The boys arrived safely, however, in time for the 
parade. They were fully uniformed, but they did noi 
carry weapons. Those who paraded were 
Eugene Reilly, James S. Walker, Henry M. Stang, 
Guorge B. Wright, Michael Potnas, George Anton, 
Leon H. Draper, Francis Eldridge, Louii F. Kulm, 
Michael Moundalexis, John D. Reebe, Konstantin 
Zoricksy, Herman J. Levine, Fred Curtis, Wasil 
Bolsizek, Victor Samanon and Robert Dempsey. 
PARADE GETS OFF 

There was not a single delay m getting the parade 
off, so well were the plans of the parade committee, 
organized. Promptly at 4 o'clock, as the shrill blasts 
of Johnson & Johnson whistle were heard, the 
Second Regiment band struck up "Over There," and 
the parade was off. 

Headed by a platoon of police, in charge of Chief 
O'Connell, the marchers made their way out of Handy 
street to Livingston avenue. At this point, fully 
three thousands people had gathered, but the excel- 
lent work of the police cleared a passageway for the 
marchers. Andrew Rappleyea, as Uncle Sam, carry- 
ing a silk flag, followed the police. 

The City Fathers, refusing to ride, marched with 
the boys, and followed Uncle Sam. Commissioners 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



John J. Morrison, Edward J. Houghton, Joseph J. 
Feaster, Charles A. Oliver, Sr., and Mayor Edward 
F. Farrington, marched abreast. The Mayor's execu- 
tive committee came next in line, and then the boys 
who were to do the real fighting. 

Colonel William Martin, accompanied by his aides, 
escorted by the Mayor's committee, also walked. 
The big Second Regiment band and bugle corps did 
their best and were accorded a warm reception. And 
then came the home boys, which was a signal for an 
emotional display. Captain J. Bayard Kirkpatrick, 
f'irst Lieutenant Richard Smith and Second Lieu- 
tenant Fred Hamer led these boys, who marched 
stoutly and with a steady tread. 

As the boys from Company H came parading down 
the avenue a ripple of "Here comes Company H" 
could be heard, and then there was scuffling, for 
everyone wanted to get into the forerank. One 
searched the faces of the crowd of those masses lin- 
ing the street on either side while the boys passed 
through. They were subdued. Their faces were set 
and tense ofttiraes. They were tiied from waiting foi- 
the parade to start, for many began to assemble 
long before 3 o'clock. But it wasn't physical fatigue 
that constrained them. It was not the time for 
emotion, but the time for thought, and that thought 
was "there goes my boy, will he ever come back." 

Then came the boys who were soon to make their 
departure from this city, and in their ranks were 
also some boys who were already in training, pre- 
paring to help lick the Kaiser. These boys were 
members of the new National Army. Many in their 
ranks were of foreign birth, but of American spirit. 
Several were coloi-ed. 

Elmer Connolly and Dr. E. I. Cronk, members of 
the local Exemption Board, acted as an escort to 
the boys. The boys assembled at the court house, 
where they were given a short talk and then muster- 
ed into the parade. 

Fully 150 paraded and they carried American 
flags. 

There were many features and sidelights in the 
great crowd. There were Ci\nl War veterans, few 
in number, but in martial spirit they were a mighty 
host. They wore the old G. A. R. uniforms, and 
medals they had won for deeds of valoi-. 

Under the command of Lieutenant Gorslin, Co. E. 
of the State Militia paraded. The boys numbering 
fifty, marched erect and made an excellent showing. 

The Spanish-American War Veterans, with their 
own fife and drum corp, marched thii-ty strong as 
did the Home Guards of Metuchen and New Bruns- 
wick. 

SECOND DIVISION 

The second division was composed of the various 
civic organizations of the city, including the Red 
Cross Society and the Exempt Firemen. In this 



division there were several bands of music and a fife 
and drum corps. 

The Red Cross Society members, attired as Red 
Cross nurses, and numbering nearly a hundred, 
marched four abreast. 

The Exempt Firemen's Association were escorted 
by a line of ex-chiefs of the New Brunswick Fire 
Department. The ex-chiefs were attired in their 
parade regalia of former days, and were also ap- 
plauded enthusiastically. Several of the exempts 
wore their red shirts and caps, while others were 
attired in their uniforms of blue. The old volunteer 
veterans surely made a nit, and many who lined the 
curb recalled the good old volunteer days, when the 
monstrous firemen parades were held. 

There were fully two thousand marchers in this 
division, including the Goodwill Council, Good Intent, 
Knights of Columbus, the various Hebrew societies. 
Sons of Veterans, steam fitters. Eagles, Moose, For- 
esters, and many others, all of whom were represent- 
ed by large delegations. The Boy Scouts were 
largely represented. 

A flag of historic fame was carried by the New 
Brunswick Lodge of Elks, B. P. O. E., No. 324. It 
was a tattered flag presented to the local "Hello 
Bills" by Major Buttler, after the battle of Manila. 
No little comment was heard about the flag. 
30,000 SEE PARADE 

It was estimated that fully 30,000 people viewed 
the spectacle. On every street of the line of march, 
hundreds gathered to pay their tribute to the boys. 
As the parade passed St. Peter's Church the chimes 
played. 

The biggest crowd to witness the demonstration 
was on George street, bet^veen Washington street 
and Livingston avenue. Between these points there 
was a solid mass of people on the sidewalks. Every 
window along the parade route was occupied and on 
several of the house roofs, along George street, men 
climbed to get a good view. 

Although the demonstration was hurriedly ar- 
ranged, it is doubted if the city of New Brunswick 
will ever see such an intensive military and civic 
spectacle. 

With the Second Regiment band playing "Auld 
Lang Syne" the boys of Company H, Second New 
Jersey Infantry boarded a special ti-ain at 8.30 
o'clock Saturday morning, tired and happy, while 
hundreds of friends and relatives crowded the plat- 
form to bid them a last good-bye. Tired because of 
the heart-rending and nerve-racking duty of part- 
mg with those they love and hold most dear, and 
happy because every soldier boy, from the oldest 
veteian of the company to the youngest "rookie" was 
convinced that behind Company H stood, united as 
one, the 35,000 people of the city of New Brunswick. 

Forty-three 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



THE BANQUET 

"May each and ever>'one of you be returned to us 
sound in mind and body," said Judge Peter F. Daly 
to New Brunswick's soldier boys, gathered in the 
Ballantine Gymnasium at Rutgers College on Fri- 
day afternoon, September 14, 1917, for the city's 
great farewell banquet, and that was the sentiment 
echoed by every man, woman and child in New 
Brunswick. 

The banquet was a fitting farewell to the soldiers 
of the city. The big gymnasium, the scene of many 
and many a jovial banquet of Rutgers alumni, never 
looked down upon a merrier scene, a scene that was 
just a little bit over-joyous, perhaps, because of the 
ache in the heart of everyone there at the knowledge 
of what was waiting for the boys in khaki — an ache 
that had to be hidden. 

The banquet scene was a memorable one. Iiong 
tables seating nearly fifty men each, ran lengthwise 
along the big gymnasium, covered with snowy cloths 
and laden with delectable viands of every description. 
Across the left end of the hall was a table reserved 
for the officers and other dignitaries. 

The boys of Company H, New Bi-unswick's first 
sons to enter the Federal service, filled three long 
tables in the rear of the gymnasium. The selective 
service men, in civilian clothes, occupied three other 
tables in front. The members of the local Exemption 
Board also were present in a body. 

RED CROSS LADIES SERVE 

The ladies of the local Red Cross Chapter acted as 
waitresses, and they kept heaping the plates of the 
soldiers with good things. As the ladies moved 
swiftly and quietly about the big gynmasium their 
headdresses and white dresses lent a pleasing touch 
to the picture. 

Never was such a banquet in New Brunswick 
before. Perhaps it was the knowledge of what that 
banquet meant that lent added savor to the food, but 
never did any body of men so enjoy a dinner since 
the city was founded. Praise for everything was 
heard on every side. 

During the meal the musicians kept up an almost 
constant flow of music. Popular songs, national airs, 
stirring military tunes were kept up almost con- 
tinuously, and from time to time the soldiers joined 
in the choruses. Performers from the Opera House 
and other volunteers also added to the entertainment 
of the fighting men. 

Not content with listening, the soldiers started 
several songs of their own in the infrequent inter- 
vals when they were not busy eating, and they were 
also liberal with yells for various persons connected 
with the celebration. 

A handsome compliment was paid to Rutgers Col- 
lege, which had donated the use of the gymnasium, 
by the boys of Company H, when they sang the 
college song, "On the Banks of the Old Raritan." 

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Finally, when all had satisfied the inner man to the 
full, topping off an excellent meal with ice cream, 
home-made cake, coffee and cigarettes. Mayor Ed- 
ward F. Farrington called for order and briefly intro- 
duced tne Rev. George H. Payson, one of the speakers 
of the evening. 

Extolling the patriotism of the men who were about 
to go forth to defend their nation's flag. Dr. Payson 
expressed to them the pride that the city felt in 
them and its urgent desire that everyone of them 
might come back home before long. 

"I have never seen the city in such gala attire as 
it was today for the parade of our soldiers," said 
Dr. Payson, "and yet 7 could not help but feel that 
beneath it all there was a feeling of solemnity and 
awe at the great sacrifice that you men are about 
to make." 

But there is as much patriotism in the hearts of 
the mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts as in 
those of the soldiers, he said. Every shot strikes 
twice, killing a soldier and at the same time break- 
ing the heart of a woman. 

"But with our tears, our smiles, and our prayers," 
he continued, "we send you forth. Soon your ad- 
dress will be 'somewhere in France,' and there our 
hearts will be. If I were a little younger I would be 
glad to exchange with you myself. 

"This war is a cruel war; the evidences of this 
are everywhere. But it is the holiest war that the 
world has ever seen. It is war not only to defend 
freedom and humanity, but a war of deliverance, to 
succor the oppressed, deliver all nations and to de- 
stroy the awful fiction of the divine right of kings." 
A rising vote of thanks to the city of New Bruns- 
wick, to Rutgers College, and to the ladies of the 
Red Cross, was then called for by the Second Regi- 
ment officers, and it was given with a will. Yells 
for all were given by the soldier boys. 

"We want to thank New Brunswick for the splen- 
did entertainment given us this afternoon and even- 
ing," said one of the officers. "And some of us are 
Rutgers men, and we are glad to see how Rutgers 
has come to the front and identified herself with 
the Nation's welfare. And most of all, we want to 
thank the splendid ladies of the Red Cross." 
$200 FOR COMPANY H. 
Judge Peter F. Daly, of the Court of Common 
Pleas, was then introduced by Mayor Farrington, 
and he announced that the sum of .?200 had been 
presented to the members of Company H as the 
balance of the fund raised by the people of the city. 
"With it goes the heart-throb of every man, 
woman and child in the city," said Judge Daly, as a 
silence that told more plainly than any words the way 
that the soldiers felt about it, settled over the big 
hall. "There was a lump in every throat, a jump 
in every heart today. For magnificent as are the 
world's movements, great as are the national issaes 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



at stake, the afl'uctions of family and relationship 
are, after all, the ultimate things of life. 

"And it was only these intimate relationships that 
we could think of today. 'These are our Brunswick 
boys,' was the thought in every heart, and that is 
the ultimate in life." 

With an eloquence, and earnestness, that touched 
every heart in the gymnasium. Judge Daly went on 
to say that it was the intimacy of feeling for the 
soldiers that was the great reason for the demon- 
stration, and all shared in it from the Mayor to the 
humblest citizen. 

Incidentally, Judge Daly paid a high tribute to 
Mayor P'arrineton for his "splendid integrity and 
self-sacriflce in public sei-vice." 

Life would not be worth living. Judge Daly went 
on, if the principles of American democracy and all 
true democracies were not secured, and for this the 
boys of New Brunswick are offering their lives to 
their nation. 

Our cause is just, the speaker declared, for the 
United States suffered humiliation and shame almost 
without end before war was declared. "But now," he 
thundered, "There are only two classes left, the loyal 
and the disloyal — and, God forgive them, there are a 
number of the latter left." 

But the manly stride of the soldier boys and boys 
who soon will be soldiers, said to the intriguer, the 
anarchist and the pro-German, "There is no room in 
America for you." This statement was greeted by a 
wild outburst of applause and hand-clapping which 
forced the speaker to stop for several minutes. 

"The cry of women and helpless babes still comes 
to you from the watery grave of the Lusitania," said 
the ji' ;., "and this war cannot end as long as any 
human oeing responsible for these things still claims 
a divine right of partnership with God. You go t") 
make the world safe for American democracy and 
for every other true democracy." 

The blood of every race, he continued, is banded 
together in New Brunswick's soldier representatives, 
joined in a militant brotherhood of Americans. 

As the speaker concluded his address the big audi- 
ence burst into round after round of applause, which 
ended only when the band struck up "America" and 
all joined in the national hymn. To the stirrinij 
strains of "The Star Spangled Banner" the meeting 
then broke up, and a page was written into the 
history of New Brunswick that will stand out always 
in bright letters. 



There was more than one wet eye among those 
who had gathered to honor the soldier lads, but 
smiles were bravely substituted as all rose to honor 
the khaki-clad youngsters. 

It was a fitting climax to an occasion that probably 
never before, even in the trying days of the Civil 
War, has been seen in New Brunswick. The com- 
mittee in charge cf the big farewell celebration was 
one of the most active ever appointed to arrange for 
a big demonstration in this city. 

The members of the Mayor's committee were: 

Chairman — Mayor Edward F. Farrington. 

Treasurer — Commissioner John J. Morrison. 

Secretary — Frank M. Deiner. 

Executive committee — Mayor Farrington, Commis- 
sioner Morrison, Jesse Strauss, F. M. Yorston, J. 
Fred Orpen, John Payton, John P. Wall, Milton 
^trauss, Frank M. Deiner, Charles A. McCormick and 
Elmer Connolly. 

Pageant— J. Fred Orpen, R. C. Nicholas, Edward 
Burt, Charles Spratford, I. Ross, John Conger, Ches- 
ter Holman, Raymond White, Samuel Shannon, 
James Tomney, Charles A. McCormick, William Hig- 
ley, Ralph Gorsline, Philip Bruskin, John Bartholo- 
mew, Fred Gowen, Robert Hyde, William Applegate, 
Morris Bauer, Edward Johnson, William Watson and 
John Watson. 

Music — John Payton Joseph Galipo, Charles Mor- 
ris, Frank Knoll, B. M. Bohn, William Cortelyou and 
John Donnegan. 

Finance — Commissioner John J. Morrison, Jesse 
Strauss, Henry Landsberg, C. A. Groves, Harry Solo- 
mon, Hai-vey Hullfish, James Kidney, George Gath- 
ers, Elmer Boyd, Ralph Holman, Ernest Webb, Wil- 
liam Applegate, William F. McGovern, Jacob Hoag- 
land and Edward Gleason. 

Refreshment — Charles A. McCormick, Andrew 
Kirkpatrick, John Kirkpatrick, John Paulus, Joseph 
Snyder, Harry Silverstein, E. V. McCormick, Chester 
W. Wood, Harvey Hulfish, W. F. Thomas and Ed- 
ward Ballantyne. 

Publicity— Frank M. Deiner, Harold E. O'Neill, 
City Clerk McLaughlin, District Court Clerk Ray- 
mond Stafford and George C. Ingling. 

Entertainment — Milton Strauss, Jake Besas, 
Joseph Shagrin, Edward McCormick, Nelson Ham- 
mell, Charles Whalen and John Clark. 



Forty-tive 



NEW JERSEY DAY 



REGISTRATION DAY 
TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH 



June 5, 1917 — What a wealth of color in that phrase! 

JUNE 5, 1917 — A mere day — a day among 365 in the year — and yet a day 
which in history will share honors with America's greatest of days, 
July 4, 1776. 

FOR ON JUNE 5, 1917, men from twenty-one to thirty-one years of age, 
representing the flower of the nation, will for the second time in his- 
tory assert their inherited independence. 

The President of the United States has prescribed that all male residents 
in the United States from the ages of twenty-one up to thirty-one 
years of age shall register at their customary voting places on June 5. 

What an honor it is for those whose years qualify them to this consecrated 
duty — what a thrill there is in the mute voice of 10.000.000 men — 
"Here I am to render to my country any service for which I may be 
suited." 

10,000.000 noble men symbolizing the verv soul of Old Glory — men who 
will shape the destiny of our entire beloved country. 

What an honor it is to register one's name on memorable June 5, 1917 — 
what a noble duty will be performed by 10,000,000 men to 100.000,000 
men, women and children. 



YOU 



Will you head the grand procession to the registration polls "Bv the Dawn's 
Early Light" on JUNE 5. 1917? 



N THE WORLD WAR 



PROCLAMATION ON REGISTRATION 

No day in the history of our country is so important to the gi-eat conflict 
on the other side of the water as tomorrow, when all men BETWEEN THE 
AGES OF 18 AND 45 WILL REGISTER for the greatest army in the 
history of the world. These earnest, loyal, true Americans will form the 
last of the great units to leave from the soil of the United States. This 
vast army will join in the triumphant march through the streets of Berlin, 
they will stop the flow of innocent blood, forever still the cravings of the 
ambitious Hohenzollem leaders, and, lastly, make the world safe for democ- 
racy. 

LET ALL MEN COME TO THE FRONT; it is no time for the slackers, 
or the "would if I could" crowd. We must keep before us one great thought 
and that is to defeat Germany. Don't allow anybody to influence you to 
shun your duty — no true American will try to — but keep ever uppermost in 
your mind the fact that we will soon emerge victorious from the great 
conflict and fhat you will want to have it said that you did your duty. 

We know of no case in New Brunswick where anybody of the draft age 
has not come forward and offered his services to his country. New Bruns- 
wick is proud of her splendid record in going over the top in the Liberty 
Loan and other war campaigns, and in contributing many of her fine young 
men, many of whom are now fighting on the firing line in France. 

As Mayor of this great commonwealth, I do hereby request that the 
American flag be displayed on all public and private buildings of New 
Brunswick tomorrow. I further request that the employers give their em- 
ployes ample time in which to register and to do everything within their 
power to see that there is no evasion of the law. 

AlE men between the ages of 18 and 45 are to register at the various 
poJling precincts designated by Local Board No. 1, tomorrow, between the 
hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. 

By way of instruction and to clear up the uncertainty which seems to 
exist among some of the older men involved in the extension of the draft 
ages to include men between 18 and 45 : 

"A man is considered to be included within the new age limits unless on 
or before registration, September 12, he has reached his forty-sixth birth- 
day. If his age is 45 years and 364 days on September 12, he must register. 

"The minimum age limit of 18 years, on the other hand, is intended to 
include any young man who, on or before September 12, shall have reached 
his eighteenth birthday. 

"For these reasons it is important that all men who have the slightest 
doubt as to whether they are included within the new draft limits, ascertain 
as soon as possible before Registration Day the date of their last birthday. 
The burden is on the man who fails to register to show that he does not 
come within the new age limits. 

"The man who stands back now is lost; lost to the ranks of citizenship; 
lost to the mother who bore him ; lost to the father who gave him a name ; 
lost to the flag that protects him ; lost to the Nation that calls him ; lost to 
the world that needs him. His day of birth is henceforth a day of dishonor. 
He can never name it without a lie. His time has come, and he has denied 
it. He is a man without a country, an outcast I 

EDWARD F. FARRINGTON, Mayor. 
New Brunswick, N. J., September 11, 1918. 



Forty-sez en 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



Tlhie Maim lPo)w®ir of ftlhi® Malhnoim Siginis 



On the 5th of June, 1917, occurred one of the 
most memorable events in the history of democratic 
institutions. 

On that day 10,000,000 self-governed young 
Americans marched quietly to the polls and, in a 
voice that was heard around the world, registereo 
their invincible detei-mination to preserve for them- 
selves and their posterity the blessings of the liberty 
with which they have been so richly endowed. 

The young men of New Bi-unswick made Regis- 
tration Day a real voluntary offering of their ser- 
vices to the nation in its hour of danger. All over 
the city they hurried to the registration places early 
to enroll their names for militai-y service. 

The city awoke thoroughly on that morning to the 
fact that the United States was at war. When .it 
seven o'clock a great salvo of factory whistles, 
mingled with the pealing of church bells, announced 
the opening of the Registration Day that was to 
secure for the nation an army to put in the field, the 
youths who were to serve and the relatives who were 
to keep the home fires burning realized keenly that 
the war had been brought home to America. 

And the young men made it plain by the way they 
hurried out that they were no slackens, but were 
ready to do their share to make the world safe for 
democracy by service overseas. 

And the people of the city did what they could 
to honor the men who were enrolling. Flags were 
flying everywhere. Probably at no time since the 
nation entered the war was there such a display of 
the national colors, together with those of the Allies. 

The saloons were all closed, as were many of the 
factories, but most of the stores were open. 

But it was not altogether a gala affair. Beneath 
it all was a realization of the solemnity of the occa- 
sion of the fact that before long the casualty lists 
might contain the names of those who were going on 
the registry lists. But there was a feeling of solemn 
pride, of joy in sacrifice, beneath it all. 

The quietness of the registration, in fact, was its 
distinguishing feature. The crowds were orderly, 
waiting their turn in line, and causing the registra- 
tion officials as little trouble as possible- All seemed 
to be imbued with the feeling that the nation was 
calling on them for service and that it was the least 
they could do to help the registry along. 

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Few precautions were taken by the local authon- 
ties. At the third poll of the Fifth Ward, in the verj' 
heart of the Hungarian section of the city, a mili- 
tiaman was stationed, but there was no occasion 
for his services. Throughout the city, the registra- 
tion proceeded as quietly as an election. It was 
purely a civil affair, carried out with the full consent 
of the people of the city. 

The foreign population, largely through the effoits 
of manufacturers, seemed to have been impressed 
even more deeply with the necessity of registering 
than were the Americans themselves. They all 
turned out early, and at the registration places where 
the foreign population was large, the clerks were 
rushed all day. 

In the purely American districts, however, thei-e 
were often lulls in the registration. 

On the whole, New Brunswick took the registra- 
tion merely as a chance to show its patriotism. There 
was little shirking and no disorder. 

No political election in this city or county ever 
passed off in smoother manner than on that day, a 
day which marks an epoch in the history of the 
nation. The manner in which the youth of New 
Brunswick and in fact, everywhere in the country, 
realized its responsibility was a tribute to the young 
patriots, while the sober sense of its citizenry oblit- 
erated any disloyalty or anything that smacked of 
treason. 

The work of registration was carried out by volun- 
teers. There was not the least bit of trouble 
throughout the registration. Everything was har- 
monious although the enrollment meant the rounding 
up of men belonging to many nations. 

Untried registration machinery, extemporized for 
the occasion and operating under the provision of a 
law containing many things new and strange to even 
experienced registrars, was handled in a way that 
did great credit to all who participated. 

Men of large affairs deserted factories, banks, 
industrial plants and offices to aid in the registra- 
tion- Everyone seemed to want to do his bit. 

The question of exemption was answered by nearly 
every alien in the city and nearly 75 per cent claimed 
exemption, on the grounds of dependent relatives. 

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tage of native-bom Americans. The employes of the 
Public Serivce all asked for exemption because of 
occupational duties. The employes of the Wright- 
Martin Aircraft Corporation and munition plants 
claimed exemption. All the firemen who registered 
also claimed exemption. 

The registration was in charge of the general elec- 
tion board in each election district with a chief 
registrar in charge. 

The result and total registration in this city ac- 
cording to wards was as follows: 
District White Black Ailen Total 

First Ward, First poll 118 5 104 221 

Second poll 122 2 184 309 

Third poll 82 5 15 10'^ 

Second Ward, First poll 119 2 82 15S 

Second poll 120 45 39 204 

Third poll 174 49 138 361 

Third Ward, First poll 267 .... 88 355 

Second poll 65 .... 181 246 

Third poll 85 6 217 308 

Fourth Ward, First poll .... 104 1 23 128 

Second poll 122 .... 65 187 

Third poll 95 2 32 129 

Fourth poll 125 5 86 216 

Fifth Ward, First poll 103 22 51 176 

Second poll 135 1 202 338 

Third poll 159 1 159 319 

Sixth Ward, First poll 98 5 31 134 

Second poll 167 4 35 206 

Third poll ..._ _ 163 7 30 200 

Total, New Brunswick....2423 162 1713 4298 

The statistics compiled by the local board of the 
registration of June 5, 1917, and the draft following 
are of interest. The report was made up for the 
Provost General's office and shows the following 
facts: Called for examination, 2701; men who failed 
to appear when called, 240; men called but had 
previously enlisted, 71; accepted on physical exami- 
nation, 1451; rejected on physical examination, 809; 
certified to District Board, 474; men who failed to re- 
port at Camp when ordered, 33; rejected at camp, 
1; claims filed, 1196; claims allowed, 1006; claims 
disallowed, 101; men dischaiged by District Board on 
appeal, 12; men discharged by District Board on 
industrial claims, 51. 

In comparing the married and single men in the 
draft, the following figures are submitted: 

Married men registered but not called, 721; single 
men, 736; married men called but not accepted, 1157, 
single men, 920; married men called and accepted 
107, single men 516; total registration of married 
men 1985, single men 2172; total number of married 
men called 1264, single men, 1436. 

The following figures show the number of aliens 
and citizens affected by the first draft: 

Total number of native citizens, 695; total number 
of naturalized citizens, 73; aliens, 574; alien declar- 



ants, 120; total number of native citizens called but 
not accepted, 1034; number accepted 310; total num- 
ber of naturalized citizens called but not accepted, 
104; number accepted, 25; number of aliens called 
but not accepted, 751; accepted, 249; number of aliea 
declarants not accepted, 188; number accepted, 39. 

The total registered native citizens in the first 
draft was 2,034; number of naturalized citizens, 
202; number of aliens, 1574; alien declarants, 347. 

Registration day, June 5, 1918, for young men 
reaching 21 years of age since June 5, 1917, added 
the names of 256 youths to the list of draft regis- 
trants of New Brunswick. The official report as 
published in the second annual report of the Provost 
General gives the total registration for the draft as 
5176, while the local registry returns show 4298 
registrants. The only way that this difference in the 
total can be accounted for is that the registrants left 
the city before they were checked up by the local 
board. 

REGISTRATION OF SEPTEMBER 12, 1918. 

Registration of all men not enrolled in previous 
drafts between the ages of 18 and 45 years was 
accomplished on September 12, 1918. 

The registrants answered all questions readily and 
fully aided in every way possible the registration. 

The registration in this city fell short of what 
was expected by the Federal authorities. A total 
registration of 5,545 was expected here, whereas only 
5,435 men enrolled for Uncle Sam's mighty army. 
In all four districts of Middlesex county, excluding 
Perth Amboy, 20,223 men were registered. The 
Third District, which embraced the various munition 
works, enrolled the largest number of men, 5,800 be- 
ing enrolled. The Fourth District was second to New 
Brunswick with 4,951, while the Second District 
registered the least number of men, 4,037 men being 
enrolled. 

The employes of the Wright-Martin, Johnson & 
Johnson, Brunswick Refrigerating, Neverslip and the 
India Rubber plants registered in their respective 
plants. At the Wright-Martin p'ant, 1,121 men were 
enrolled; Johnson & Johnson, 339; India Rubber, 68; 
Neverslip, 31. Registration was carried on at the 
local draft board headquarters, a corps of clerks be- 
ing engaged in this work. During the day 183 were 
registered. 

Of the 5,435 men registered here, 2,574 were 
native-bom citizens; 573 naturalized citizens, and 133 
citizens by father's naturalization before registrant's 
majority, making a grand total of 3,280 citizens 
eligible for military service unless given a deferred 
classification or exempted because of physical 
defects. 

Of the men registered, 766 had taken out their first 
papers, while 1.389 were non-declarant aliens, making 
a total of 2.155 who were not citizens of the United 
States between the ages of 18 and 45 years. 5 204 
men who registered were whites, while 216 were 

Forty-nine 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



negroes. Fifteen Chinamen of the city registered. 

It is interesting to note the ages of the men who 
registered- A total of 45 men were registered who 
neglected to register in the dralt of 1<>17. The 
majority of these men were "slackers," while there 
were a few who came into this country since mc last 
registration. 

The table on ages follows: 

Eighteen years, 303; nineteen, 273; twenty, 317: 
twenty-one, 19; twenty-two, 4; twenty-three, 3 
twenty-four, 4; twenty-five, 5; twenty-six, 6; twenty 
seven, 5; twenty-eight, 1; twenty-nine,5; thirty, 6; 
thirty-one, 7; thirty-two, 254; thirty-three, 446 
thirty-four, 443; thirty-five, 373; thirty-six, 366 
thirty-seven, 355; thirty-eight, 344; thirty-nine, 306. 
forty, 305; forty-one, 248; forty-two, 290; forty-three 
247; forty-four, 230; forty-five, 271. 

LIST OF ALIENS 

There were 578 non-declarant Austrians and Hun- 
garians here who nad not taken out tneir papers, 
as against 338 who had. 

The list of declarants and non-declarants fellows: 
Belgium, 1 declarant and 2 non-declarants ; England, 
41 declarants and 18 non-declarants; Irelanu. .. 
declarants and 6 non-declarants; Scotland, 6 declar- 
ants and 1 non-declarant; Canada, 6 declarants and 
6 non-declarants; Jamaica, 2 declarants; other Brit- 
ish possessions, 1 non-declarant, making a to.al of id 
British subjects who have declared themselves and 
34 who have not. 

France, 17 declarants, 12 non-declarants; Italy, 118 
declarants and 184 non-declarants; Portugal, 3 non- 
declarants; Russia, 115 declarants, 143 non-declar- 
ants; Servia, 3 declarants, 2 non-declarants; Chin% 

1 declarant and 12 non-declarants; Japan, 1 non- 
declarant; Denmark, 2 declarants, 1 non-declarani; 
Netherlands, 5 declarants, 4 non-declarants; Nor- 
way, 3 declarants; Roumania, 5 declarants; Spain, 

2 declarants, 73 non-declarants Sweden, 8 declar- 
ants, 2 non-declarants; Switzerland, 3 non-declar- 
ants; Mexico, 2 non-declarants; Central and South 
America, 2 non-declarants; Greece, 23 declarants, 
169 non-declaiants; Sundries, (?), 9 non-declarants; 
Austria-Hungary, 338 declarants, 578 non-declarants; 
Bulgaria, 2 declarants; Turkey, 18 declarants, 134 
non-declarants; Germany, 31 declarants, 15 non- 
declarants. 

REGISTRATION BY WARDS 
The third election district of the Second Ward 
had the largest registration; 375 men registered m 
this district, while in the thiitl district of the Third 
Ward, 310 men registered. Third honors go to the 
third district of the Fifth Ward, in which 270 men 
were registered. 

The registration by districts follows: 
First Ward, First district, 226; second district, 
171; third district, 86. 

Second Ward, First district, 159; second district, 
184; third district, 375. 

Fifty 



Third Ward, First district, 163; second district, 
238; third district, 310. 

Fourth Ward, First district, 123; second district, 
85; third district, 116. 

Fifth Ward, First district, 214; second district, 
311; third district, 270. 

Sixth Ward, First district, 144; second district, 
147; third district, 132. 

NAMES OF REGISTRARS 

The local draft board appointed the following men 
to act as registrars. 

FIRST WARD 

First District, James A. O'Cormell, chief registrar; 
C. Van Winkle, Elmer Spratford, A. McCloud, Fred 
Potter, Jr., and Joseph Slilkin. 

Second District, William Van Nuis, chief registrar; 
Frank Holden, A. J. Farley, A. W. Reeve, Frank M. 
Deiner, H. B. Crouch, S. G. Hales, John Warner. 

Third District, E. J. McLaughlin, chief registrar; 
James Talmadge, Louis Ferguson and Frank Pen- 
nington. 

SECOND WARD 

First District, John J. Welch, chief registrar; E. R. 
Carpender, F. A. Connolly, Eugene Morris and Chas. 
B rower. 

Second Diptrict, Thomas F. Brennan, chief regis- 
trar; Joseph Doyle, Henry Dunn, Charles Lowe, Ed- 
ward White, John Colligan and Howard DeHart. 

Third District, William A. Gioben, chief registrar; 
John G. Wynkoop, Alfred J. Lins, Clarence W. Cronk, 
Charles S. Britton, John Bauman, John Jonas, R- F. 
Tuttel, Jolm W. Grymes, Howard A. Re>Tiolds, 
Clarence H. Hill, George Kohlhepp, William Baldwin, 
John Rowland, Jr., David Barry. 
THIRD WARD 

First District, Fred B. Tappen, chief registrar; 
T. R. Sloan, Grover O'Neill, Robert Hannah, Andrew 
Zahn and Frank C. Wark. 

Second District, John V. Hubbard, chief registrar; 
Edward Oram, Charles R. Dey, Joseph Fertig, George 
MacPherson and E. W. MacKenzie. 

Third District, George Baier, chief registrar; 
Harry Grimes, John Dawson, John Clark, Joseph 
lovan and George C. Landmesser. 
FOURTH WARD 

First District, Morris Bauer, chief registrar; Nor- 
man Moore, Charles Foi-man, Charles Jackson, Elmer 
Boyd, Henry C. Pierce. 

Second District, George D. Johnson, chief regis- 
trar; Harvey L. Hullfish, Frederick Thickstun and 
William Whitfield. 

Third District, J. J. Rooney, chief regi.^trar; Wil- 
liam Statt, Lawrence Perkins, William Colburn and 
Alfred Fleming. 

Fourth District, Thomas F. Boylan, chief registrar; 
J. A. McCloskey, Edward Gleason, D. J. McCormick 
and Edward Foley. 



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FIFTH WARD 

First District, Walter C. Sedam, chief registrar; 
Charles Greenwald, James V. Haskins and Harold 
W. Morris. 

Second District, Alexander Gold, chief registrar; 
Michael J. Smith, Frank McMahon, E. J. McMurtry, 
John Mooney, John E. Smith and Rev. Sigmund 
Laky. 

Third District, Edward Burt, chief registrar; Wil- 
liam Kane, Peter Tennyson, Thomas Whalen, Dr. 
L. Mundy, Robert Houston, Milton R. Jaques and 
George Orpen. 



SIXTH WARD 

First District, George McCormick, chief registrar; 
Robert C. Nicholas, John P. Wall, Benson J. Trum- 
bull and Fred Cole. 

Second District, John T. Bradley, chief registrar; 
Frank McCabe, John A- Gibbons, John J. Donnelly, 
and Patrick J. Stanton. 

Third District, James A. Morrison, chief regis- 
trar; Raymond P. Wilson, R. 0. Smith and John L. 
Daly. 



The registration of all inhabitants of New Bruns- 
wick and vicinity was part of a national movement 
to make available a record of every person who 
resided in these United States. With this available 
data, the government was able to reach any indivi- 
dual without trouble or confusion. At the same 
time, tabs were kept upon the movement of strangers 
within the city. 

Among the questions asked of every person were 
the following: Name of head of house, owner ol 
premises, owner's address, family residence, flat or 
apartment, rooming or boarding house, how heated, 
if coal used for fuel, what size, how much on the 
premises, normal annual consumption of coal, num- 
ber of tons of coal for heating, number of tons of 
coal for cooking, is gas used for cooking, is gasoline 
used, how are premises lighted, occupation of tenant, 
business address, nationality, age, if alien, how long 
in country; how long in city, how long on premises, 
if not native American has he taken out citizenship 
papers; v/hen and where were first papers taken 
out, when were second papers taken out, name, age, 
sex, occupation, birth place of all occupants of house, 
what war activities have you participated in, give 
name of each. 

Aiding in this great work, the New Brunswick 
Lodge of Elks tendered the use of their building to 
the Patriotic Force for all meetings at no cost. This 
census was taken in March, 1918. 

ALIEN ENEMIES REGISTER 

The registering and fingerprinting of all male 
German residents of New Bnanswick, not actual Ij 
naturalized as American citizens, was done by the 
police department and under the direction of Chief 
O'Connell, commencing at 6 A. M. on February 4th, 
1918, and continuing each day thereafter between the 
hours of 6 A. M- and 8 P. M. up to and including 
the 9th day of February, at 8 P. M. 

Each registrant was required to furnish four un- 
mounted photographs of himself, not larger than 3 
by 3 inches in size, on thin paper, with light back- 



ground. All four signed by the registrant across the 
face of the photos, so as not to obscure the features. 
For identification a card bearing his thumbprint was 
issued to each registrant. The finger printing was 
done at police headquarters following the practice 
observed in the military and naval service of the 
United States. 

The forms filled out by a German gave in full his 
doings for the past three years. He had to state if 
since the war began he had offered himself for 
military service in any German consulate in the 
United States, and just what service he had seen, if 
any, in the German army. 

His place of employment since January 1, 1914, 
each place of residence and the name of every rela- 
tive in the armies of enemies of this Govemment or 
its allies, and the particular branch of service in 
which that relative was engaged. 

Of all registered at the police headquarters, not a 
single registrant stated that he had relatives fighting 
against the allies. Several of the registrants di-1 
state, however, that they were not aware as to the 
whereabouts of their relatives on the other side. 

His age, height, weight, forehead, eyes, nose, 
mouth, chin, hair, complexion and face, with any 
distinctive marks and full name and address were 
also recorded. 

Family particulars were given as to whether the 
registrant was married or single, name of wife if 
married, and names of children over 14 years of 
age. "Have you been registered for the selective 
drafts?" "Have you had previous military or naval 
experience?" "Have you been partly or wholly natu- 
ralized in any other country? or taken allegiance to 
any country other than the United States?" were 
among the questions asked to be answered. No 
enemy alien could change his residence to another 
registration district without a permit. 

The alien enemy women were registered at a 
separate registration and had to ansewr practically 
the same questions. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK'S FIRST CONTINGENT 
OF THE NATIONAL ARMY 

EUGENE PEILLY, 21 James street. 
JAMES SCHUREMANN WALKER, 96 Prospect St. 
HENRY M. STANG, 125 Somerset street. 
GEORGE B. WRIGHT, 131 TouTisend street. 
ALEXANDER PARKAS, 13 Prospect street. 

ALTERNATES 
MICHAEL POTNAS, 266 Burnet street. 
CONSTANTIN ZORICKSY, 1 Neilson street. 
ROBERT DEMPSEY, 18 Throop avenue. 



Solemn and impressive was the departure of New 
Brunswick's first contingent of the new Naaonal 
Army, on the afternoon of September 5, 1917, at 2:24 
o'clock for Camp Dix, Wrightstov\-n. There was 
neither the blare of honi or trumpet to signal their 
approach or departure. A large number of fiiends 
of the men were on hand, however, to bid them a 
last farewell. 

The boys assembled at the ofTice of the Exemption 
Board, 57 Livingston avenue, at 1:30 o'clock and fol- 
lowing the roll call, which was made at 2 o'clock, 
they marched to the Pennsylvania Railroad ttation. 
There they met their friends and relatives who had 
gathered to bid them Godspeed. It was but a short 
wait before the special train bearing other drafted 
men i-olled into the station, the local boys boarding 
amid the cheering of the crowd. 

The local boys drafted into the new National 
Army had their first taste of military life wr.en they 
attended the first roll call which was made at 5:30 
o'clock at the Exemption Board office on the after- 
noon previous to departure. There were no atten- 
dants with the exception of the board, the clerks, 
and Judge Peter F. Daly. 

The impressiveness of that roll .call will never be 
forgotten. The twenty-two young men summoned 
before the board responded to the roll call wi;h one 
exception. When the name of Leon Assco, of 25 
Hiram street was called, there was no response. 

Although but five men were selected, the entire 
group expressed a willing-iess to leave for the train- 
ing camp. Following the roll call and the address 
by Judge Daly, the boys were peiinitted to return 
to their homes. 

In a most eloquent manner, Judge Peter F. Daly 
paid homage to New Brunswick's first contingent -A 
the new National Army on behalf of the citizens of 
this city. It was one of the finest patriotic addresses 

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ever delivered by Judge Daly and the only regret 
expressed was that a large crowd was not able to 
hear it. 

"It has been my privilege and opportunity, time 
and time again to speak to small and select crowds 
and to thousands," began Judge Daly, "on occasions 
of jubilication and on occasions of sorrow, but never 
before in my life has there been an occasion so 
solemn as in speaking to you men. 

"I was indeed signally honored," continued the 
Judge, "when this distinguished board asked me to 
speak to you. You who are recognized as the youth 
and strength of this nation, who stand ready to 
give your lives in order that America may live. 

"I hope you boys realize what this draft is. You 
are to he members of our National Army. An army 
that is more democratic than any army in the world. 
In this army we will find both the rich and the poor. 
It did not matter whether you had political influence 
or whethsr you had gold, if you were drawn you had 
to respond. It is this procedure that has made the 
new army so democratic. 

"You men are going into this new aiTny and will 
be measured not by your political influence, nor your 
wealth, but by your manhood, courage and heart. 
Upon you rests much responsibility. Upon you rests 
the task of proving that the youth of America stands 
ready at all times to preserve democracy against 
atuocracy. 

Speaking of the bloody conflict across the sea-s, 
Judge Daly declared that if the kaiser had won m 
his purpose in Europe, his militarism would have 
stretched across the sea to this country. 

Judge Daly also censured the kaiser and his war- 
lords for the debauchment of the women of Belgium 
and for their ruthless warfare and said that in his 
opinion Germany had all the European nations whip- 
ped until the entrance of this country. 



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ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX OFF FOR WAR 

Amid outbursts of cheering mingled with many 
sad tears, one hundred and forty-six of "Our Boys" 
marched away to war on the morning of Saturday 
September 22, 1917. Scenes attending their depar- 
ture were unprecedented in New Brunswick. 

Hundreds of loyal citizens turned out to bid New 
Brunswick's increment of the National Army fare- 
well, and a rousing and inspiring farewell it was. 

One hundred and eighteen members of the new 
National Army from the Second Exemption District 
and one hundred and thirty-two from the Fourth 
Exemption District accompanied the local boys to 
Camp Dix. The Second District boys boarded the 
train at the Pennsylvania station here, with the local 
contingent. 

The ceremonies attending the departure was to 
behold sad and inspiring. They were intensely 
impressive and stirred the patriotic soul of every 
citizen who witnessed the departure. Many of the 
boys as they made their way through the lanes of 
thousands of people wept, for they realized that soon 
they would be in the trenches offering their life 
for Democracy's sake. 

Although some of the thousands who filled the 
sidewalks seemed to take the occasion not seriously, 
there hundreds more — men, women and children — 
who wore solemn and sad faces, and many of them 
wept, for it was either their sons, brothers or cousins 
that filled the ranks. 

In the ranks of the men, many were to be seen 
laughing and joking as though they were on their 
way to an outing, yet there v/ere still others who 
had a tear in their eye and a lump in their throat, 
as they saw their fathers and mothers in the big 
crowd waving a fond farewell and wishing them 
Godspeed. 

The boys were ordered to assemble at 8 o'clock, 
but long before that hour, they began to assemble at 
the local exemption headquarters. Simultaneously 
the boys of the Second and Fourth Districts were 
meeting at their headquarters to make ready for 
their departure. When the roll was called there 
were but few absentees, and for these, alternates 
were provided. 

The local exemption board officials were greatly 
handicapped by the massive crowd that gathered on 
Livingston avenue in front of the headquarters. The 
crowd refuf:ed to remain on the sidewalks as com- 
manded and as a result, the exemption board official 
were greatly interferred with. 

Headed by the Boy Scouts' drum corps, "Our 
Boys" paraded down Livingston avenue to New 
street, to Kirkpatrick street, to Bayard street, to 
George street, to Albany street, to the railroad sta- 
tion. Mayor Edward F. Farrington, Commissioner 
Edward J. Houghton, Rev. Edward Hall and Dr. 
1. Cronk and Elmer E. Connolly paraded at the head 
of the delegation. 



Monroe Taylor acted as captain of the local dele- 
gation and was ably assisted by several corporals. 

All along the line of march, thousands surged from 
the sidewalk to the street, leaving little room for 
the boys to march. Upon reaching Albany street, 
the crowd reached such proportions that the boys 
were compelled to break four abreast and march in 
twos. All traff'ic was held up by the gigantic crowd 
and as the boys reached the railroad station, they 
were greeted by the shrieking of the claxons, sirens 
and other noise making devices which was deafening. 

Making their entrance to the railroad station on 
Easton avenue, the boys were put on the offense for 
the first time, for the mob of people that gathered 
there refused to give way even for them to pass. 
Everyone, apparently, had a brother, son or a dear 
one in the ranks and was eager to say a last farewell. 

A rush was made by the surging crowd for the 
railroad platfoi-m, but they were driven back by the 
police, who had their hands full in keeping them 
from breaking through their guard. Automobiles 
clogged all traffic on Easton avenue and for a half 
a block away from the station, autos lined up in zig 
zag fashion. 

The boys, on reaching the platform, were marched 
to the Somerset street entrance where they were 
lined up and given instructions. Fully 160 composed 
the local ii'crement and of this number 164 were 
selected to make up our quota of forty per cent 
Fully 135 men made up the Second District's delega- 
tion and of this number 118 were selected to board 
the train. 

As the train rolled into the station, there was a 
mad scramble to get aboard the train and disregard- 
ing all advance orders, every conscripted man on the 
platform apparently jumped aboard. Unable to cope 
with the situation, the local exemption boards per- 
mitted all hands to continue their journey to Camp 
Dix, where matters were finally adjusted and the 
surplus sent back. 

The boys were all eager to get into service and at 
the First and Second Board headquarters, there was 
a unanimous feeling that the sooner you get into 
service, the better it will be. 

Although hundreds of relatives and friends of the 
boys were denied the privilege of bidding the boys 
farewell on the railroad platform, they gathered m 
large numbers on Wall street, Somerset street, on 
the Rutgers College campus and on the railroad em- 
bankment on George street. At these vantage points 
they cheered the boys to the echo. 

When the train quickly disappeared out of sight, 
the cheerful look that many men who gathered on 
the platform had forced gave way to one of serious- 
ness. Many of the women's eyes outside the station 
were red from weeping. They tried to be brave 
but here and there was one who would turn away 
when spoken to. She dared not answer for fear she 
would give way to tears. Her heart was in the train. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



speeding on its way to camp — in tlie keeping of 
someone v/hD would don the khaki and before long be 
in the trenches beneath the flying shells. 

Promptly at 10 o'clock, the troop train pulled out 
of the loc.il station and then there were more cheers 
and tears. The men quickly entrained as stated and 
as many as could leaned from the windows to con- 
tinue their talk with the few who succeeded in evad- 
ing the police guard. The boys were in high spirits 
as the train pulled out of the station and from the 
rear platform of the last car came shouts, "We'll 
get the Kaiser." On one of the coaches was the 

inscription "To H with the Kaiser." 

FIFTY-FIVE MORE FOR DIX 

t'lfty-five sound men and true, went out of New 
Bi-unswick November 19, 1917, into the great school 
of the National Army to be fitted for soldiers' part in 
America's war for v?orld freedomi. Accompanying 
the local lads were forty men from the Second Dis- 
trict Board. , 

There couldn't have been more auspicious condi- 
tions than those under which the boys left this city 
for Camp Dix. Although the skies hung low, the 
sun taking only an occasional peek from the clouds, 
the day was an ideal one from the selective's point 
of view. The populace of the city was there by the 
thousands, the city's representative men were there, 
the Mayor and City Commissioners and the Board 
of Trade, and, of course, the mothers, and sweet- 
hearts and the kid brothers and sisters to give the 
valiant sons of Uncle Sam a fitting au revoir. There 
were sixteen carloads, including the local contingents 
and those from various points of North Jersey. They 
left this city at 11:30 o'clock exactly eighteen min- 
utes behind schedule. 

It was one of the impressive incidents that will 
always remain in the memory of those who witnessed 
the passing of these boys to the Great Adventure, to 
do their part in the strafing of the Hun, to make the 
world safe for democracy. Under such conditions 
the emotions run riot and are all according to the 
peculiar makeup of the individual, but in the aggre- 
gate there can be no question but that there was a 
strong feeling, deep and sentimental that brought 
tears to the eyes of the women folks and caused a 
very preceptible tightening of the muscles of the 
throats of the sterner sex. 

There was laughter and tears, but no hysteria. 
Men and women cried but softly that the departing 
loved ones might not be depressed. Sweethearts 
struggled heroically to make the farewell a smile, 
but the tears would come, now and then, despite the 
determination not to. But the departing men were 
cheerful outwardly at least, concealing the pain of 
separation that many must have felt. 

The last farewells were brief. The departing 
waved cheerfully, lifted their hats and called out 
cheering messages. Knoll's band played the "The 
Gang is All Here" while the men boarded the train. 

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and as the train rolled out of the station, it was the 
dominant note. 

The draftees gathered their kits and their friends 
at the local Exemption Board headquarters. The 
Second District boys met at the county court house. 
In the main they were a very happy aggregation of 
young patriots and a mingling among them failed 
to overhear one single word that might indicate 
anything like bemoaning their fate. All were, in fact, 
apparently eager to get to camp and to training 
preparatory to "going over" to help the valiant 
Polius and the Tommies and the sons of Italy wal- 
lop the barbarians who massacre under the guerdons 
oi Bill the Frightful. 

At 10.45 o'clock the line of march was taken up 
with Andrew Rappleyea in the lead impersonating 
Uncle Sam and carrying a large American flag. He 
was followed by a detail of police and then came the 
City Commissioners and Mayor Farrington. The 
band came next in line, followed by six school girls 
carrying a large American flag, and the Spanish- 
American War veterans with their colors. The 
members of the local Exemption Board came next 
and after them streamed the boys on their way to 
real war, the city and then the county boys. 

Marching with the men were many women and 
children. One woman pushing her baby in a small 
carriage trudged along with its brother. Mothers 
clung to the arms of their dear sons- Two or three 
of the selectives walked arm in ai-m with their fam- 
ilies to the station. These sights moved more than 
one to emotion. 

Before their departure from the Exemption Board 
headquarters, the local men were presented with 
complete comfort kits, sweaters, mufflers, etc., by 
the local chapter of the Red Cross, and a tobacco 
kit by the Soldiers' Farewell-Welfare Committee. 

The line of march took the men down Livingston 
avenue to New street to Codwise avenue to Bayard 
street to George street to the railroad station. At 
the railroad station, hundreds had gathered to bid 
the boys a last farewell. Th local police and rail- 
road detectives were at both entrances of the station 
and they refused to permit anyone to trespass on the 
platform without a pass. 

There was a great cheer as the men struggled 
through the crowd and stopped for an interval at 
the station entrance. Many relatives and friends 
struggled with the police to get upon the platform 
but they were denied permission. After much push- 
ing, all the selectives succeeded in getting upon the 
platform. Many relatives and friends, too, got by 
the officers who had their hands full in handling the 
rush. 

The crowd became so large that the police were 
swept aside at the foot of the stairs leading to the 
platform and then there was a mad rush up the 
stairs to the platform. The crowd was only to be 
thwarted in their efforts by another strong arm 



IN THE WOR LP WAR 



squad at the imemdiate entrance to the platform who 
held them in check. 

But along came the hour, 11:30 by the clock, 
uiiu the engine began puffing and blowing and some 
stentorian voice shouted, "All aboard," and those wtio 
were taking their farewells hopped on the train just 
as it began to pull out of the station. Every window 
displayed a young patriot's face, mostly smiling, 
sometimes just a bit indicative of late and excusable 
tears. Hands waved, flags fluttered here and there 
as down the iron bound track the sinuous line ol: 
coaches wended its way, off toward the training 
camp. And so they passed until the faint echo of the 
puffing locomotive could just be discerned in the 
distance carrying its precious freight to the strange 
world of intensive training and preparation for the 
part Uncle Sam was to play in giving the knockout 
blow to 'the barbaric hosts of the Kaiser. 
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE OFF TO 
"CAN THE KAISER" 

With the band playing, with thousands of rela- 
tives and friends assembled on the streets surround- 
ing the railroad station waving flags frantically and 
cheering them on lustly and with city and county 
officials, members of the clergy and men and women 
of prominence bidding them Godspeed from the rail- 
road platform, the New Brunswick contingent of the 
National Army departed for Camp Dix, Wrights- 
town, on February 25, 1918 to begin a vigorous 
course of training preparatory to taking active part 
in defense of democracy. 

One hundred and twenty-five composed the New 
Brunswick contingent and it was a truly representa- 
tive company. One hundred and one boys from the 
Second District also accompanied the local contingent 
and they, too, represented all walks of life. 

Shoulder to shoulder they marched to the railroad 
depot. All on the same plane and all determined to 
cross the seas for that which is holy. There was no 
class distinction in the d' awing of the boys for the 
army. All were given the same chance and they 
who went forward represented the true red-blooded 
American. 

The boys showed signs of tiredness as they moved 
along the railroad platform, after climbing the steep 
stairs but it was not the tiredness brought on by 
physical exertion but because of the heart-rending 
and nerve-racking duty of parting with those they 
loved and held most dear. 

Reville was sounded for the second time at 9 
o'clock and every member of the contingent answered 
the roll call. Knoll's band assembled at the Exemp- 
tion headquarters. 

The Red Cross Chapter was represented by a 
corps of good women who saw that every boy was 
comforted with a sweater, wristlet, helmet, socks, 
and a comfort kit. It was just one event after an- 
other for the soldier boys. Mayor Farrington 
delivered a message bidding them Godspeed and then 



the men assembled on the steps of the Free Public 
Library anl had thir pictures taken. 

It was 10:15 o'clock when the rumbling of the 
drums was heard and to a martial air, the soldier 
boys began their first march as members of the new 
National Army. Andrew E. Rappleyea, impersonat- 
ing Uncle Sam, led the procession and he was follow- 
ed by the Spanish-American War Veterans who 
carried their colors. The City Commissioners, the 
Soldiers' Welfare and Farewell Committee and the 
members of the local Exemption Board acted as an 
escort to the men. 

Marching four abreast the new soldiers paraded 
down Livingston avenue to New street, to Codwise 
avenue to Bayard street where they met the men 
of the Second District with their Exemption Board 
as escort, and then proceeded down the thorough- 
fare to George street and thence to the railroad sta- 
tion. 

As numberless as the sands upon the seashore 
appeared to the soldiers the crowd that surged the 
parade route and jammed the main arteries of the 
city. The people literally banked the streets and 
compelled the soldiers to force their way through. 
Business wiis practically closed down. The clerks of 
the various department stores thronged the 
thoroughfares, while hundreds of factory employes 
left the plants at 10 o'clock, practically suspending 
operations loi the day. 

The newly inducted soldiers were cheered all along 
the route and at various intervals the men broke 
ranks to embrace some loved one who happened to be 
on the edge of the surging crowd. Many pathetic 
scenes were enacted on George street where the 
largest crowd assembled. 

At the ccmer of Church street, one aged woman 
was so overccme by the sight of her son who marched 
along burdened by heavy luggage that she fainted. 
She was removed to a nearby store and was later 
revived. 

A large force of police under the charge of Chief 
O'Connell wrre on hand, but the crowd grew to such 
large proportions that they were unable to handle it. 
At the railroad station, thousands of people gathered 
and mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers in 
their determination to see their beloved ones, blocked 
every channel that led to the railroad platform. 

Upon arriving at the station, the crowd was bo 
large that it was decided to march to the comer of 
College avenue and Somerset street and then coun- 
termarch. This change in the program attracted a 
big crowd from the station entrance, but when an- 
other attempt was made to gain an entrance, the 
crowd completely swept the details of police off their 
feet and made passage for the men utterly impos- 
sible. 

After the 10:27 train had passed through here, 
a call was made to the men to proceed. The men re- 

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sponded under many difficulties, for the crowd made 
a rush for the railroad platform. The police ordered 
the crowd back and to make an opening for the 
soldiers, but this command was heeded but little. 
Finally the crowd did make a narrow passage way 
through which the men marched. 

Upon reaching the railroad platform, the Welfare 
and Farewell committee of which Mayor Farrington 
was chairman, met them and presented each with a 
comfort kit- 
Once reaching the platform, the men had little 
tinie to wait and at 11:05 the big troop train pulled 
into the station while the band played "Over There.' 
When the train came to a standstill many of the 
North Jersey boys on the same train alighted and m 
a democratic way met the local boys. 

The train pulled out of the station at 11:15 o'clock 
well crowded with over a thousand young huskier. 
The pulling out of the train was a signal for a wild 
demonstration. Hats were hurled into the air, women 
■waved their handkerchiefs, others waved flags while 
the boys standing on the platforms of the coaches 
bid all a last farewell. 

That demonstration will never be forgotten by the 
boys. It showed that the patriotism of the citizens 
of New Brunswick was not doi-mant and that New 
Brunswick was alive to the fact that the United 
States was at war to a finish. 

MAYOR FARRINGTON BIDS FAREWELL 
TO THE BOYS 
The Mayor's message to the new National Army 
men follows: 

On this solemn occasion, when you stalwart young 
men — 125 strong — are about to depart from this city 
of ours to begin a new life, one that requires courage, 
it beheoves me, as Mayor of New Brunswick, on 
behalf of the citizens, to bid you Godspeed and at 
th". same time offer up a prayer that the God Al- 
mightly will bring you all safely back to your dear 
ones at home. 

You men are going to assume greater responsibili- 
ties, and upon you the eyes of every loyal citizen of 
our city will be focussed while you are in the training 
camps, and later upon the battle scarred fields of 
France. 

While you men are at the front, the men, women 
and children who remain at home will do their utmost 
to supply you with the many comforts which are 
not provided by Uncle Sam. The good women of 
the Red Cross who are untiring in their efforts to 
make the soldier boys happy, will continue their 
splendid work. Today they provided you with warm 
sweaters, wristlets, comfort kits, etc. Oh! how grate- 
ful are we to this great Red Cross Army. 

Today America is in a war for democracy. We 
seek no indemnities, but only ask that the poor and 
weak nations be not down-trodden. You young men, 
Uncle Sam ir. sending forth to do battle with our 

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enemy and to prove to them once and for all that 
although America is a peace-loving nation, still these 
United States stand for all that is righteous, and 
are prepared to stand upon her honor to the end. 

In this war we must keep our zeal at white heat 
and our heads perfectly cool, and if we should have 
to drink from the cup of suffering, let us drink in 
silence, as Belgium has done. There is no heroism 
like quiet heroism. There must be universal self- 
dedication to downright hard work. 

Two years ago the world was scarred and cursed 
by the most awful crime ever perpetuated since our 
Blessed Lord was taken by cruel and violent men 
and crucified on Calvary. Over a thousand peaceable 
and law-abiding citizens, including 114 of the citizens 
of the United States, were suddenly sent to their 
death by the sinking of the Lusitania. That deed waj 
hatched in hell. If peace were declared tomorrow, 
the shame and disgrace of that awful crime would 
remain written in scarlet letters across the Gei-man 
Empire. 

At first Germany tried to discount her own da- 
pravity by the statement that the vessel was power- 
fully armed, but later she had to admit the falsity 
of her plea. I have yet to learn that any leading 
German statesman, ruler, thinker, or even preacher 
has given to the world one sentence of disavowal of 
that deed. No — the crime was followed by the merry 
pealing of church bells, by the granting of holidays 
to shcool children by public celebrations of the event, 
and according to well authenticated reports, by 
honoring of the captain of the submarine that fired 
the torpedo. Well, one thing is certain, that awful 
crime has injured Germany far more than it has 
injured her enemies. For long, long ages to come, it 
will be remembered. 

That act and mr.ny other acts perpetrated by our 
enemy have enraged the peace-loving people of this 
country to war and today, you men and hundreds of 
thousands of other young men throughout this 
country, are called upon to revenge these acts and to 
uphold the honor and dignity of this country. 

America is at war, but America has scarcely be- 
gun to fight. We must keep our zeal at white heat, 
and our heads perfectly cool. Let us keep together. 
For the time being we must be united. The Govern- 
ment must be absolutely sure that in every wise and 
worthy step it takes, it can depend on our united 
and willing support — no matter what that support 
may cost. 

Let me remind you further, boys, that when you 
enter the camp, you live clean, decent lives, for Uncle 
Sam wants only fine, clean and strong boys. If you 
want recreation look to the agencies that exist in the 
camp. Don't seek immodest pleasure, for they only 
terminate in ruin. 

While at camp it is your duty to attend the ser- 
vices of your church. If you are a Protestant, chap- 
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If you are Catholic, the good priests will assist you. 
If you are of Jewish descent, the good Rabbis wi'J 
aid you. . 

And here I would pause to utter a warning to all 
who love their country, lest they be deceived by the 
plausible reasoning so current in these days. Re- 
member that those groups who have essayed and are 
still endeavoring to take God out of His world, are 
also aiming to take the love of country out of the 
hearts of the people. The same men who have denied 
God also deny the reality of patriotism. They have 
said that religion is only a survival of primitive fear, 
and that love of country is a survival of savagery. 
When therefore, they have destroyed one they will 
attack the other. Hence, my friends, if you would 
preserve in your hearts the love of freedom, the love 
of country, be careful that the knowledge of God and 
His attributes are not allowed to die out of your 
lives. Never forget that the impious group who 
would destroy the love of God would also, if unhind- 
ered, deny the love of country. 

To you, young men, members of our new National 
Army, I want to say that it is an honor under the 
selective draft law to have been proven mentally, 
morally and physically worthy to wear the uniform, 
to carry the rifle and to represent before the nations 
of the world, the American idea and American ideals. 
There is nothing under the present system that in 
any way reflects upon the courage, character or the 
patriotism of those whom the Government calls into 
its service. 

With great care, with the endeavor to adopt every 
wise precaution, detei-mined only that the armies we 
send forth shall be composed of those best able to 
perform great and important duties, governmental 
machinery has been devised and placed in operation 
to select the worthiest and the best. 

And so. members of the new army, with all my 
heart I congratulate you on having been found to oe 
fit defenders of our faith. 

You are picked men— chosen for your worth— the 
fower of our city. You stand for your country. 
You stand for liberty and freedom and progress, jusc 
as surely as Alexander stood for Greece, Caesar for 
Rome or Napoleon for France. 

You are going forth to fight against an idea that is 
wrong— a system that is wrong— a dynasty that is 
wrong— a country that blindly following a despotism 
gone mad, has committed itself to the wrong. 

History knows two Germanics. There is a Ger- 
amny which is very dear to the descendants of the 
sons of the fatherland, and they may be found in 
every country on earth— hosts of them in our own. 
It is a Germany of love and romance, of poetry and 
song, of music, of art and of literature, the Gennany 
of folk love and folk life. 

It is a Germany that has been transformed by a 
despotism that has filled the world with terror, a 
Germany committed to the proposition that might 



alone makes right — a Germany that must go down if 
peace and righteousness are again to prevail on 
earth. 

God grant that our beloved country may share in 
the stability and endurance of the Church of God, 
that she may soon emeige from this d.sastious war 
endowed with renewed life and vigor; that she may 
inaugurate a new era of lasting ptace, that may be 
emblazoned on her escutcheon. And then may we 
behold the sturdy emigrants coming to our hospitable 
shores from the various nations of Europe, being 
assimilated to the native population, becoming bone 
of our bone and flesh of our flesh, contributing by 
their industry to the material prosperity of the 
republic. 

Above all, may we behold them enriching their 
adopted land with blessings of Christian faith, and 
uniting with us in building up the walls of spiritual 
Jerusalem. 

Let me say in conclusion thait we do not know 
when this disastrous war will come to an end. But 
of one fact I am certain, that you boys who stand 
before me, as well as the people of this country, 
have an abiding faith in the wisdom and judgment 
of the President of the United States- Let us 
earnestly pray the Father of Lights that He would 
mould and shape and temper the minds and hearts 
of the Chief Magistrate and his associates in the 
prosecution of the war, so as to lead us to an early, 
a permanent and an honorable peace. 
TWENTY-TWO OFF FOR CAMP GREENLEAF, 
GEORGIA 
More of them going away — to become soldiers in 
the name of world democracy. 

Twenty-two embryo soldiers swung dovra Living- 
ston avenue and over George street to the depot in 
the misty sunshine of 9 o'clock on the morning of 
March (3, 1918. Though lacking the military preci- 
sion they attained in a few months, they marched 
with unfaltering step. The greatest tribute that can 
be paid to them is that they were physically, mentally 
and morally fit for warfare, just as well as those 
who preceded them to camp. 

As Knoll's Band played "Over There" and "Keep 
the Home Fires Burning," they boarded a special 
train at the Pennsylvania depot at 9:30 which took 
them to Camp Greenleaf, Georgia. 

It was touched with melodrama, this going away of 
the selective men of New Bi-unswick. Emotions 
gripped the several thousand which bid the twenty- 
two goodbye and good luck. Cheers and tears 
mingled. Invariably it was those left behind who 
shed the tears. The departing ones themselves were 
cheerful, ctspite the sadness of a farewell demon- 
stration, wh)ch most of them would like to avoid. 
TWENTY-SIX FOR CAMP DIX, TWENTY OF 

THEM COLORED MEN 
With the band playing and hundreds of men, 
women and children bidding them Godspeed, sixty- 

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two Middlesex County men — forty-six from New 
Bi-unswick and the others from territory em- 
bracing the Second District — departed from the 
Pennsylvania Station on April 26, 1918 for Camp 
Dix. The men were in the best of spirit and ex- 
pressed a willingness to get into training, prepara- 
tory to going to France. 

The men of the New Brunswick district assembled 
at the district headquarters at 10 o'clock. Appro- 
priate exercises were held, and there was the usual 
distribution of comfort kits, smoking material and 
essentials by the local chapter of the Red Cross and 
the Farewell and Welfare committee. Similar exer- 
cises were held at the Second District headquarters, 
with the usual distribution of comfort kits by the 
Red Cross chapter of the rural districts and the 
smoking material by the local Farewell and Welfare 
committee. 

Twenty colored men from New Brunswick were in- 
cluded in the local contingent. They were in a happy 
mood and were cheered all along the line of march. 
Many of the men were accompanied by their sisters, 
mothers and sweethearts, and on the way to the rail- 
road station, they walked arm in arm with them. 
There were more friends of the boys in line than 
the selectives themselves. 

Among the men who departed from this city was 

Robert Fitzsimmons, Jr., son of the late Robert 

Fitzsimmons, former heavy^veight champion pugilist. 

Fitzsimmons registered as a resident of Dunellen- 

FOR FORT SLOCUM, N. Y. 

On May 13, 1918, thirteen stalwart sons of New 
Brunswick were added to the constantly growing 
forces of General Pershing. They departed at 11.25 
o'clock to be inducted into the regular anny at Fort 
Slocum, New Rochelle, N. Y. Accompanying the 
boys who represented several different nationalities 
and who go to make up this great democratic nation, 
were thirteen men from the Second District oi Mid- 
dlesex county, most of whom were of foreign birth. 
CAMP DIX 

On May 27, 1918, New Brunswick sent out what 
may be termed an "All New Brunswick" delegation 
to Camp Dix and for that reason an unusual crowd 
congregated about the local Exemption Board to see 
the boys off. At ten the boys answered the roll call, 
after which they were assigned to various captains. 
They were instructed as to what would be expected 
from them upon reaching camp and were requested 
to obey all orders promptly. 

After ths roll call the men were pei-mitted to 
mingle with their friends until 10:45 o'clock, whei 
the parade to the station was started. There was 
but little confusion in getting off, as all the boys 
showed an eagerness to reach the camp and begin 
their training. 

It was the greatest demonstration ever given the 
draftees to leave this city. Many of the local boys 
were very popular among the opposite sex and their 

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many friends were surely on hand. In the parade 
to the station, relatives and friends marched shoulder 
to shoulder with them. 

It was shortly before 11 o'clock, when the parade 
got under \vay at the local E.xemption Boaid head- 
quai-ters. Headed by Andrew Rappleyea, imperson- 
ating Uncle Sam, the marchers pioceeded down Liv- 
ingston avenue to New street, to Codwise avenue, to 
Bayard street where the boys of the Second Dis- 
trict were met. After a brief stop the parade con- 
tinued down Bayard street, to George street, and 
thence to the railroad station. 

TO SYRACUSE, N. Y. 

On July 30, 1918, th'rty-one limited service dral- 
tees departed from the four draft boards of Middle- 
sex County, for Syracuse, N- Y., to begin training 
for non-combatant service in the various embarka- 
tion camps of the country. The men will be assigned 
the task of doing fire and police duty in these camps. 

The boys were in a happy mood because they were 
entering the sei-vice of the government, but some of 
the draftees expressed the hope that they would be 
transferred to general military service. "We don't 
want to remain in this country, we want to go where 
there is action," ore of the lads was quoted as saying 
at the local station before departure. 

Ten boys departed from this city boarding a special 
at 7:47 o'clock. Because of the early hour there were 
but few people present to bid them farewell. 
CAMP RARITAN BAND MAKES ITS FIRST 

PUBLIC APPEARANCE: THE FIFTH OF THE 
ROSENBERG BOYS GOES TO WAR 

The citizens of New Brunswick and surrounding 
municipalities paid homage to the ninety selectives 
who made their departure from Middlesex County on 
Tuesday, August 27, 1918, for Camp Mead, Md. The 
demonstration here was one of the most impressive 
held in honor of the youth of the city who stood 
ready to give their all in order that democracy might 
live. 

A truly military aspect was added to the depar- 
ture of the boys. A company of soldiers from Camp 
Raritan headed by the military band of fifty-five 
pieces from the camp, acted as an escort. 

The march to the railroad station from the local 
draft headquarters was started at 10:10 o'clock. The 
Camp Raritan soldiers were escorted by the mem.- 
bers of the City Commission and the mombe's of the 
Welfare and Farewell committee. Following the 
detail of soldiers, marched the members of the local 
draft board. The Spanish-American War veterans 
with their colors, also marched with the drafted 
men. 

The draftees paraded down Livingston avenue to 
New to Kirkpatrick street to Bayard street where 
the twenty-four draftees of the Second District 
Board fell in line at the court house. A large crow.1 
of relatives and friends were at this point to cheer 
the boys up, and when the signal was given to fall 



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in, the relatives and friends moved with the draftees. 
The parade then continued down Bayard street to 
George street and thence to the railroad station. 

At the railroad station, there was a rush for tne 
platform and many succeeded in getting past tne 
oificers who were on guard. No sooner had the 
draftees reached the platform, than the special carry- 
injj many draftees from northern New Jersey, pullej 
into the station, and within five minutes the boys 
were on their way southward. The boys had hardl> 



time to bid their beloved relatives and friends one 
last farewell before they were whirled away. 

Mrs. William Green, of 22 Commercial avenuo, 
gave her fifth son to Uncle Sam with the departur? 
of William Rosenberg. She was at the railroa.l 
station to see her son off, as she had on four other 
occasions. 

Following the parade the Camp Raritan soldiers 
were the guests of the Welfare and Farewell com- 
mittee at a luncheon at the canteen on Bayard street 




FIELD CLERK HAROLD O'NEIL AT HIS DESK IN FRANCE. 
This is an exact likeness taken by our special artist on the spot. 



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N<Bw Mimmmich G©©§ WO 




ROM the moment on November 7, 1918, 
that the unofficial news was flashed 
that Germany had capitulated until 
the early hours of the next morning, 
New Brunswick witnessed a spectacle 
which even Bamum, in all the glory of his trick 
vocabulary, would be at a loss to describe. To call 
it a mere spectacle would be a grave injustice to an 
event which thrilled 35,000 people to the highest 
pitch of enthusiasm and hysteria — simply, New 
Brunswick went mad. It is a safe venture to pre- 
dict that the glowing history of New Brunswick will 
never record a like experience. 

It was a case of sheer hilarity, hysteria, pan- 
demonium, all the way down the line. 

It was just five minutes to two in the afternoon 
when the disturbance began. Factories and churches, 
informed that the armistice had been signed, let 
loose their sirens and tolled their bells. Automobiles 
honked, a special feature being to back-fire every 
now and then. And then the crowds appeared. 
From every conceivable place, hatless and coatless 
throngs surged into the streets. Staid old gentlemen 
forgot their dignity for the moment and yelled like 
lusty youngsters. Flags of all the allied nations 
appeared instantaneously on all sides. The mob 
surged everywhere, with no definite direction in view 
— simply to let loose after four years of intense 
strain. 

For the moment everyone was dazed, and people 
in the street stood still until some sudden movement 
galvanized everyone into action. 

Movement was necessary and spontaneous. No- 
body considered what he was doing. The staider 
folks found themselves on the tops of crowded taxis, 
blowing squeakers and holding on with an arm 
around the neck of a complete and, in normal times, 
highly undesirable stranger. 

Street hawkers with supplies of flags were cry- 
ing huskily, "Wear yer colors, lidy, all silk." Even 
in their wild excitement the pretty little workgirls 
had not forgotten how to look picturesque, and they 
wore their colors bound over their heads like a nurse's 
veil or had a red, white, and blue fillet across their 
brows. Dogs ran about with decorations, a French 
poodle with a tricolor tied to his tail doing his best 
to look democratic. 

Taxis carried thirty people, and the driver neither 
grumbled about his tires nor collected money from 
his cheering fares; and the great Government air- 
plant lorries and fire apparatus were hidden by 

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shouting crowds which hung on to their every pro- 
jection, those passengers who had any foothold still 
continuing to dance. 

A motor bus passed with its load overflowing on 
to the cover over the driver's head and on to the 
hotbonnet of the motor, all cheering, singing, waving 
flags and dancing. 

There was no organized or official rejoicing, just 
a spontaneous popular outburst. There were no 
bands but the tin-can and comb kind, no processions 
but the informal groups. 

What did it matter that there was no music? 
rtTiat did anything matter? Anyway you could not 
have heard the music for the singing and the cheer- 
ing. 

What if later on the people in the cafes did take 
«/ the table-tops and from this point of vantage sing 
and dance and harangue the multitude ? Who had 
a better right? Never were so many speeches made 
and so few listened to. The crowd had other things 
to do; it could make its own speeches and did, too, 
whenever the spirit moved. 

But although the streets were crowded, the 
churches were crowded too, and if the benches could 
speak, they would tell of men and women who rushed 
in with their trumpets and squeakers in their hands, 
dried floods of bitter tears on their crumpled flags, 
and then went bravely out to cheer for the sake of 
others. 

LETTER CARRIERS FIRST TO PARADE 

The Letter Carriers' Association had the honor of 
being the first to parade, and the ranks of this asso- 
ciation were swelled by the Postal Delivery wagons. 
Others fell in line. 

The repo.-t had hardly reached the New Brunswick 
High School students when they met in the audi- 
torium of the school, and, after holding short exer- 
cises, were dismissed for the day. The excited school- 
boys and pirls marched out into the street to merge 
with the wild throngs crowding the thoroughfares. 

Auto trucks began to make their appearance. 
Crowded to the tailboard with frantic employes, who 
had hastily left their work to join in the celebration, 
the trucks coursed down one street into another, 
without purpose or direction, moved simply by their 
occupants' desire to let out. All this while chimes 
rang out from church belfries, sirens shrieked and 
automobile horns snorted. 

An impronsed parade bsgan, sowehow, romcwhere. 
All propelled by the same urge, moved in the same 
direction. Ihe parade managed to get some sem- 



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blance of order and direction, finally, on George 
street. Rutgers College men, attired in their S. A. T. 
C. uniforms, Wright-Martin employes. High School 
students, India Rubber Company trucks, negro organ- 
izations, culinary individuals. Prep students, Boy 
Scouts, autos, everything and everybody, marched 
shoulder to shoulder, side by side. Ar.d the crowds 
cheered. Strangers greeted each other with perfect 
familiarity. "I knew it, I knew it," went from one 
person to the other. "Too good to be true," was 
another phrase that was hurled from one to another. 
The crowds lined the sidewalks, and, becoming too 
great for comfort, surged into the streets. 
A MYRIAD OF FLAGS 

A myriad of flags appeared. Unearthed from 
cellars, garrets, and every other possible hiding place, 
they flooded the streets. "A multitude of color," as 
one enthusiast described it, evidently forgetting the 
anomaly. The din kept on without abatement. Noise, 
noise and more noise. Stores shut their doors and 
factories joined in the jubilee. 

Bands, created on the spur of the moment, let out 
their discordant mu£;ic. Tin discs were apologies 
for cymbals. Cans were used for bass drums. An 
effigy of the Kaiser was brought to view. The 
crowds jeered. Grammar School children gave their 
catcalls and cheers. "Two, four, six, eight, how we 
do hate the Kaiser," was shrieked in its cadence. 
Women cried with joy. 

The crest of the afternoon celebration was reached 
about three o'clock. Officials forgot their dignified 
positions and yelled like schoolboys. 

The first wave of enthusiasm abated somewhat as 
the afternoon wore on. The crowds dispersed 
gradually, tired by the physical exertion. 

Then officialdom became busy. Mayor Farrington 
made public announcement that a huge parade would 
be held from Livingston avenue at 7:30 in the even- 
ing. 

SWARM TO PARADE SCENE 

The bustle and the expectancy kept up without a 
stop. Horns kept trumpeting. The noise kept up 
without abatement. 

And so the hours went by and when six o'clock 
had come, the crowds swarmed in the direction of 
Livingston avenue, the scene of the huge parade. 
It seemed as though late information to the effect 
that the armistice had not yet been officially con- 
firmed, made no impression on the ardor of the crowd. 
It was intent upon celebrating, and it did. The 
parade will live in the annals of New Brunswick for 
all time. It is current belief, though, that the specta- 
tors enjoyed the parade more than the paraders 
themselves. The goodnatured joshing that was pass- 
ed amid the throng, the familiarity which greeted 
one on every hand, the chatting and the expectancy, 
will be memorable to every one of the spectators. 
Celebrating knew no bounds. 



Camp Raritan turned out in full force. It is 
extremely hard to conjecture whether the soldier 
laddies enjoyed the excitement. Many were disap- 
pointed. Those who had ached for an opportunity 
to go over-seas saw their hopes blighted by the la- 
test news. 

"Gee, I wanted a lick at that damned Kaiser," 
they said. 

EVERYBODY IN LINE 

The parade didn't get started until 9 o'clock. 
After all ceremonies had been completed, the march- 
ers swung up George street to Albany, the City Com- 
mission, followed by the Police force, heading the 
parade. Everybody marched. Police, Fire Depart- 
ment, whose sirens created an unearthly din, Red 
Cross Workers, Home Guards, everybody. Every 
civic organization was represented. The noise was 
terrific. Every now and again, a lone cheer would 
go up, which would immediately be taken up, until it 
became a frenzied uitburst. The parade wended up 
George street, to Somerset, to College Avenue, to 
Bartlet, to Easton, to Somerset, to Louis, and finally 
disbanded at French street. It was interesting to 
see a band of lone Socialists in the body of the 
parade carrying a huge red banner with the inscrip- 
tion, "Workers of the World Unite. Peace has been 
declared." 

It is impossible to give a complete description of 
what happened. Suffice it to say that all the super- 
latives with which the English language is so richly 
endowed would hardly express, with any degree of 
exactness, the event. 

There was a mob, pandemonium and fervor. A 
concoction of these three elements, suitably mixed 
might result in something to compare favorably with 
what happened. What an event! 

But all through that strange day, there was this 
medley of noise and movement which seemed to make 
clear thought impossible. Odd, disconnected inci- 
dents and individuals stand out. 

Many folks looking back to that wild day will find 
themselves wondering at the unaccountable things 
they remember doing. 

SECOND CELEBRATION 

The news of the signing of the armistice was 
heralded into town ac 2:05 o'clock on the morning of 
November 11, 1918, und from all appearances, peace 
must be a remarkable restorative. It seems as though 
all the pent-up energy of four years had not been ex- 
hausted by the premature peace celebration on 
November 7. Not content with these outbursts of 
delirious joy, New Brunswick decided to have a par- 
ade to celebrate the great event. And it did. 

Promptly at 2 o'clock the Union Band appeared 
in Court House Square and entertained the huge 
crowd which turned out for the parade. Throngs 
lined Livingston avenue, George and Albany streets, 
patiently waiting for the parade to begin. An 

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avalanche of talcum powder greeted the onlookers. 
Armed with feather dusters which were sprinkled 
plentifully with the powder, energetic young people 
pushed through ttie crowd and used their dusters with 
almost deadly effect. Drug stores must have rid 
themselves of a year's supply of talcum powder. 

The parade did not begin until the Jewish paraders 
made their appearance on Bayard street, waving 
banners with such inscriptions as "Allies' Victory is a 
Jewish Victory." The crowd extended a glad hand 
to their Jewish compatriots. 

With the police at the head of the procession, fol- 
lowed by the band, the parade turned do%vn Bayard 
street into George. As the comer of George street 
was reached the Zionists in line broke into the 
"Marsellaise," singing the stirring tune in the French 
version. Everybody cheered. Boys from the Rut- 
gers Students Ai-my Training Corps in line were fol- 
lowed by \he City C'ub, each member wreathed in 
smiles. The ever-present Boy Scouts were there, 
with a Scotchman in Highlander costume, the Junior 
Police at the head, a handful of Socialists with their 
fiery red banners, the fire department and the Girls' 
Division of the War Camp Community Service. 

Several incidents in connection with the parade 
served to bring bursts of laughter from the enthusi- 
astic audience. Funeral cars, donated by Under- 
takers Harding and Quackenboss, carried the flaring 
announcements "Here Lies Wilhelm," "The Crown 
Prince," "Ludendorff" and "Here Lies Von Hinden- 
burg." The throngs shouted their approval when 
the funeral cars hove into sight. 

The Kaiser must have been remarkably meek in 
his last moments of power, to judge from the goat 
purporting to be his, which was mounted high on an 
automobile in line. Considerable laughter was evok- 
ed at the sign, "We've got the Kaiser's goat." 

Every dump heap in town was raked for old boilers 
and tin cans which were used in making the terrible 
din. The sirens of the fire department were at their 
discordant best. Rattles, after early hours in the 
morning, could not be procured at any price. Every- 
thing was enlisted to make the day the most memor- 
able in the history of New Brunswick. 

The Jewish flags with their five-pointed stars and 
those kindred to them, the Greek, fluttered all over 
the foreign quarter. 

Everywhere could be felt the quiet enthusiasm 
which came with the assurance that the indescrib- 
able beast had abdicated and that his army was in 
the throes of defeat. 

The streets were lined with crowds, talking good- 
naturedly and making complimentary remarks about 
the Kaiser and his eventual destination. Noisy auto- 
trucks dashed noisly around the city, raising a din. 
In this respect, trucks from the Nixon Nitration 
Works excelled. Crowded to the full with cheering 

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workers, and bedecked with highly amusing signs 
caricaturing the Kaiser, they were greeted by the 
onlookers with rounds of applause. The men from 
Nixon's carried a coffin with the flaring announce- 
ment, "He lingered but we nailed him in the end." 

George street was a maze of showering paper 
flung about by delirious clerks in office buildings. 
The air was one swirling mass of white flakes, of 
curious shapes and size.;, torn out of leagers, books 
and other office accessories. 

Traffic was extremely arduous, wagons and autos 
intent upon going on their business always in danger 
of being overturned by careening trucks crowded 
with celebraters. 

The carrying of red flags by ithe Socialists in the 
parade without American flags, aroused the ire of 
more than one 100 pei cent. American, but none of 
the onlookers took any action until the members of 
the S. A. T. C. at Rutgers got busy. The students 
formed a body and went to meet the parade, but 
\.'hen '-.hey arrived at a designated point where it 
was passing, they found that the ones they were 
looking for had left the line of march. Then came 
a search. The followers of the red flag were found 
to be holding a meeting in the Hungarian Socialist 
headquarters on French street. 

Hanging out of a window of the meeting room was 
the red flag. The students demanded that it be re- 
moved, but it was not put away as promptly as the 
crowd on the outside desired. One of the Socialist 
orators attempted to make a speech about the pur- 
pose of the meeting. Those on the outside only 
clamored that the red flag be removed. After a time 
it was removed and the American flag hung out. The 
crowd cheered this, but following the American flag 
came the red flag, waved by one of the partxipants 
in the meeting. 

This was enough for the crowd of soldiers and 
townsmen on the outside, and, led by a prominent 
member of the Rutgers football team and a sailor, 
they crowded into the place. The Socialists locked 
the door, but it was quickly broken down. Tho 
crowd entered the room in true moving picture style. 
The first thing they went for was the red flags. The 
Socialists fled through the window in the rear of the 
room and were not followed, as the red flags were 
the objective of those making the raid. 

One of the Socialists offered resistance, but a 
husky sailor lad soon put an end to his fighting 
spirit. The flags were taken to the college campus, 
where they were distributed among the raiders. 

"The Day" has come and gone. The red har\'est 
of blood and desolation and tragic misery has not 
even yet been fully reaped — but the setting sun of 
November 11, 1918, witnessed a German fleet steam- 
ing into the silence of surrender without honor, 



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German armies in retreat, and a passionate appreci- 
ation of peace that the world had never known be- 
fore. 

The signing of the armistice which meant defeat 
for German ambitions of might — the ironic night of 
her dream of The Day — released everywhere the 
spirit of exultant, prayerful celebration; a glorifica- 
tion of freedom, not of domination, of victory — yes! — 



but not of the premedlated crushing of one member 
of the human family by another. 

For this was "The Day" on which the false God 
of Force invoked by Germany had been overturned 
by the time God of Strength that the free nations 
had summoned to theii aid. As never before there 
were shown, then, to the peoples of the earth the 
gloi-y and the richness of peace, bought at the price 
of such heroic but dreadful death. 



"LeJouT de gloire est arrioe." 




. SERGT. "BOB" SEARLE 
He was so fierce he scared all the girls in Edinburgh- 



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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Tin© Homniecomiiriig ©iF C®o H 



Clhiseirs airad Tears Greeft thine B©ys 



On Tuesday, May 28, 1919, with so much of affec- 
tionate welocme as it had the physical opportunity 
to give, New Brunswick greeted the boys of Com- 
pany H, ll.Sth Infantry, just home from overseas. 
Proud of all American soldiers, New Brunswick is 
proudest of her sons. These were home troops. They 
were the old National Guard. Their glorious part in 
the momentous campaign with their British and 
French comrades in the Argonne Forest is not only 
a noble chapter in the history of the war, but it be- 
longs to the family record and domestic history of 
New Brunswick. 

It was a great day for the boys. Most of them 
arrived the day before with their honorable discharge 
while others did not reach this city until noon of the 
day of the reception. Captain Smith was among the 
last to get his discharge. He did not reach here un- 
til nearly 5 o'clock pnd for that reason the parade 
was delayed an hour.' 

Captain Smith and his gallant boys were welcomed 
home with such a demonstration as has seldom been 
witnessed in New Brunswick. From noon thousands 
of persons thronged the streets waiting for the re- 
tui-ning heroes to parade and when the lines of khaki- 
clad youths finally swt.ng through the streets, they 
were viewed by fully 25,000 men, women and child- 
ren, residents of New Brunswick and surrounding 
sections. Throughout the entire line of march the 
local boys were greeted with shouts of appreciation. 

The parade formed in front of the Free Public 
Library a few minutes before 5 o'clock. The big 
throng, although comrelled to wait for an hour, did 
not grow impatient and when the Company H boys 
came marching through the lanes of men, women and 
children they were lustily cheered and showered with 
confetti and streamers. 

Mayor Morrison. Commissioners Houghton, Con- 
nolly, Jaque;; and Feaster, and the members of the 
World War Welcome Home Association, headed the 
procession. The entire membership of the fire de- 
partment was also in line with their apparatus. 

From every building floated flags and banners. In 
the center of the tov/r confetti, streamers and flow- 
ers showered down on the men from the higher 
buildings and smiles of appreciation from the sol- 
diers testified that they were glad to be home agam. 
HOLIDAY IN HONOR OF THE BOYS 

In honor of the welcome home to New Brunswick's 
own company every frctory in the city closed down 
at 3 o'clock to enab'e their empolyes to join in the 
celebration. The various department stores closed 
their doors for an hour and the school children, re- 

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leased from studies at 3:30 o'clock, were also enabled 
to view the demonstration. 

It seemed that everybody just poured out of their 
offices, homes and places of business to be on the 
side line when the brave lads of Company H, came 
tramping along. When the parade got under way all 
business in the city was practically at a standstill. 

The fire apparatuses added to the din of noise for 
the parade. The factory whistles were blown at 4 
o'clock, the hour the parade was scheduled to start 
The church bells also joined with the factory gongs 
in sounding the city's welcome. 

All in all it was a great demonstration. The 
people were proud of the return of the boys. The 
boys were as happy as larks. It was a great day 
for them; a day that they had looked forward to 
since their departure from here at the outbreak of 
the war. 

The parade was not without its touch of sadness 
for in the ranks of the company were vacancies. 
Some of the men who marched away to war with 
this company did not march on its return, not be- 
cause they are with ether living units, but because 
they are sleeping peacefully in the fields of Flanders. 
To some it was a happy moment; to others it was 
one of sadness for it bi ought back to them memories 
— yes, sweet memories — of those who made the su- 
preme sacrifice. 

From Livingston avenue the boys paraded over a 
short route and returned to the War Camp Com- 
munity Sei-vice Cluo house on Bayard street, where 
a delicious banquet was served by the woman's 
committee, of which Mrs. Henry Seiffert was chair- 
man. Here the boys proved themselves at home. 
When the many good things had been disposed of, 
Mayor John J. Morrison, in behalf of the people of 
the city, extended to the men a most hearty and 
cordial welcome. He said: "The boys of Company 
H glorified themselves by their courageous conduct, 
and New Brunswick feels justly proud of its own 
company. Too much praise cannot be given to you 
for your service in defense of justice and humanity. 
The people of the entire city have been thrilled with 
a feeling of pride and appreciation for the heroic 
deeds of you men and neither today's recepti">n nor 
the one which will be accorded you on the Fourth of 
July, can adequately express the depth of our feeling 
of gratitude. 

"Captain Smith and members of Company H, again 
I welcome you. You have sen'ed your city, state 
and country faithfully and nobly, and the services 
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long be remembered by a grateful and loving people," 
concluded the Mayor. 

Captain Smith, on behalf of Company H, responded 
with words of praise for the boys of his company 
and voiced a debt of giatitude to the citizens of New 
Brunswick in arranging a welcome home celebra- 
tion in their honor. 

How the tides of victory and defeat ebbed and 
ilowed with Company H in the sei-vice fighting in the 
Argonne Forest, how they went through all the 
complicated labyrinth of deviltries of the Hinden- 
burg line, how, in the bloodiest battle of the west 
they fought with a cool, skillful, steady intelligence 
and displayed resistless enterprise and daring — Cap- 
tain Smith told those who gathered around the fes- 
tive board at the ;lub house. 

Captain Smith aho cited the letter of Major Gen- 
eral Morton, of the 29th Division to Governor Edge 
in which he said: 

"You may be sure that the troops from your State 
have made a vi'onderful record; one which they and 
the people of New Jersey may and will remember 
with pride always. Some of your gallant officers 
and men have fallen in battle with their faces to- 
ward as stubborn a foe as the world has ever seen. 
Their memory will be sacredly preserved. Their 



relatives and friends have the sincerest sympathy of 
those who have come out alive. More have received 
honorable scars, to which they can point with pride." 
The words spoken by Major General Morton tell 
the whole story. Captain Smith said: "The boys of 
New Bi-unswick did their share in this war and the 
people of this old city can rest assured that there 
was no braver company in France. They all did their 
part. Theer was no slacking and I am proud of 
them." 

PRESENTATION TO CAPTAIN SMITH 
One of the most pleasant features in connection 
v/ith the home-coming celebration was the presenta- 
tion of a gold watch by Mayor John J. Morrison to 
Captain Smith on behalf of the members of the com- 
pany, who in this way showed their appreciation of 
the manner in whicii they were treated by him dur- 
ing their military career in France. 

The gift came as 'c. complete surprise to Captain 
Smith who was so moved that he was able to say 
but a few words, upon accepting the time-piece from 
the Mayor. 

The presentation was made at the dinner given 
to the boys by the citizens of New Brunswick at 
the War Camp Community Sei-vice club house. 




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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Great Welcome Teiradleiredl fclhie Retttuiirinied SoMiers 




MAJOR-GENERAL WEIGEL LEADS THE PARADE 



When the fateful eleventh hour of the eleventh 
day of November, 1918, came at last and the advance 
of the Hun was checked, and the ceaseless thunder 
of the big guns was sitilled, New Brunswick's sons 
were in the front lines. 

How they comported themselves when once arrived 
in France and thrown against the Germans trained 
to bearing arms almost from the cradle, what acts 
of heroism and valor they displayed can not be told 
now, in fact, there is not room to tell all the acts 
of individual heroism, all the epic stories. Blind 
Homer smiting his lyre in the dust of the Hellenic 
roadside must turn iri his grave with envy, for he 
had but Ulysses to sing about, and Ulysses could not 
hold a candle to these wanderers, many of whom 
migrated to America from the old world and then 
went a-crusading to the old world again to carry 
back the doctrines of the new. 

Proud in the consciousness that they had been en- 
trusted with a sacred task and had fulfilled it well, 
they set their faces toward the Atlantic and set their 
feet to marching down to the sea and the ships that 
would bear them home again. 

As they marched over the streets of their home 
to\vn in the glory thit was bom in the battle anguish 
and the dark hour of pain and torture across the sea, 
one saw two parades. There was the procession of 
untrained men in civilian attire, fresh from factory 
bench, from clerk's desk and counting desk, from 
tenement home and from palatial house — the proces- 
sion that with its flags over its shoulders marched 
down Livingston avenue from the local Board's 
office before going into training at Camp Dix. 
And there was the procession on the old town's recep- 
tion day to the men who covered themselves with un- 
dying glory and who left many a comrade under the 

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plain white crosses that dot the fields of northern 
France. What a change! Who would ever dream 
that the untrained men of yesterday would make the 
erect and stately soldier of today. 

No wonder that New Brunswick was proud of the 
800 or more "doughboys," "gobs" and men from 
other branches of the service who turned out for the 
parade on Saturday, June 28, 1919, and as they 
marched through the city's streets there was a tri- 
umphal progress. 

The whole city had apparently turned out en masse 
to welcome the boys back, and as each unit ap- 
proached this was thj signal for a storm of clapping, 
applause, and the tooting of automobile horns. 

Flags, streamers and "Welcome Home" banners 
lined the streets along the line of march and flut- 
tered from every window. In the downtown section 
thj business houses were all especially decorated, and 
while the parade was passing the merchants closed 
their doors. 

Service flags were everywhere in evidence, and 
here and there a gold star told of a New Brunswick 
h'.d who did not return for the city's welcome but is 
sleeping the long sleep on some French field. 

According to announcement, the parade started 
piomptly at three c'clock. The service men had 
gathered early at the Armory, and there Capt. 
Smith of Company K, had arranged them in their 
respective organizations. 

As the long blast on Johnson and Johnson's whistle 
pealed out, the head of the long column swung off 
along Handy street, crossing Codwise avenue. 

General William Weigel, commander of the 88th 
Division, marched on foot at the head of the parade, 
immediately following the platoon of police that act- 



N THE WORLD WAR 



ed as escort. Behind the General were the members 
of his staff. 

Major George Wilkinson, who served on the Gen- 
eral's staff overseas, served as Chief of Staff. The 
other members of the staff were Captain W. B. 
Twiss, Captain J. B. Kirkpatrick, Dr. J. P. Schure- 
man, Dr. Gruessner, Dr. H. W. Nafey, Lieut. WilUam 
Wall, Lieut. J. M. Perron, Lieut. P. H. Benz, Captain 
Robert W. Lufborrow, Lieuit. Harry Edgar, Lieut. 
Edwin Florance, Lieut. Miles Ross, Lieut. Rush Van 
Sickle, Lieut. Monroe Taylor, Lieut. Joseph Edgar, 
Lieut. Klemmer Kalteissen, Lieut. Russell Bergen, 
Lieut. Thomas Brynes and Lieut. Craig Denman of 
the Navy. 

Following General Weigel and his staff were the 
members of the City Commission and the General 
Committee of the Welcome Home Celebration. 

Then came the gray-haired veterans of the Civil 
War, and as the "boys in blue" rode by in automo- 
biles the crowd went wild with enthusiasm and gave 
them a tremendous ovation. 

The Spanish-American War Veterans, zbout forty 
strong, also drew considerable applause from the by- 
standers as they marched through the city streets. 

A company of soldiers from Camp Raritan led the 
uniformed ranks of service men. With them was a 
detachment of about fifty marines on active sen'ice 
who were stationed at the Naval Radio Station here 
and about as many more sailors in blue uniforms., 
in contradistinction to the city's own service men. 
now discharged, who marched without arms, were 
grim reminders of the dark days that were so 
safely passed and of the perils and dangers through 
which our own boys — or most of them — have come 
without harm. 

Then came a band, followed by the veterans of 
Allied Armies. The F'rench had the post of honor, as 
they had the largest number out. 

A delegation of fifty men who had served in the 
ranks of the French Army during the long montns 
before this nation went in represented the sister 
Republic, and about half of these wore the horizon 
blue of the French poilu. They were given a tre- 
mendous ovation everywhere. They carried French 
and American flags. They were commanded by Capt. 
Cholet. 

There was also a delegation of British and Cana- 
dian soldiers who went from this city before the 
United States joined in the battle against Germany. 

The appearance of the Company H men every- 
where was the signal for redoubled applause and 
shouting and tooting of horns, for the organization 
had retained more of a local New Bnmswick charac- 
ter than any of the others in which New Bruns- 
wick men served. 

Behind Company H marched a delegation of local 



men who saw service in the Marines, and they were 
followed by men who had served in regular army 
divisions. 

Then came the city's aviators with Lieutenant 
Franklin M. Ritchie and Lieutenant Percy Cunnius, 
in command of a detachment of about twenty enl-stcd 
men who had served in the manifold capacitie.-: re- 
quired by the ground work of caring for the 'planes. 

The Air Service men made a fine turnout, and they 
were warmly greeted all along the line of march. 

They were reinforced by a detachment of twenty- 
five engineers who marched with the Air Service as 
they had no officers of their own. 

Captain Charles Reed, wounded in action in France, 
headed the New Bi-unswick men cf the 78th Division. 
This was the largest single organization in the par- 
ade, as the majority of New Brunswick boys saw ser- 
vice with this division. 

As the boys marched past prcud parents and re- 
latives and now and then a sweetheart called out to 
the boys, and, discipline cast aside, they called back. 

The 78th Division boys represented New Bruns- 
wick- They were called from every section and from 
every class and condition of the city, and as they 
passed, the crowds seemed to realize more closely 
than with any of the other units just how this city 
was represented at the front. 

About 100 men who ser\'ed in other divisions dur- 
ing the war followed the 78th or Lightning Division 
men and swelled the total of New Brunswick's quota. 

The colored soldiers of New Brunswick, about 
eighty strong, made a splendid showing, and as they 
swung blithely along, whistling and singing, the 
great crowds that lined the the streets realized what 
their race had done as its share in the battle for 
democracy. A big reception was given the dusky 
fighters, and as they passed through the colored sec- 
tion in the vicinity of Remsen avenue they were 
cheered mightly. 

Ensign John Conger commanded the naval detach- 
ment, and he had about seventy five "gobs" in line. 
The sailors made a fine showing and they were ac- 
corded a royal reception. 

After the rows anrl rows of khaki that had paf<!e>l 
in what became a seemingly endless blotch of uni- 
form color — except to those who spotted here and 
there the face of one near and dear to them — the 
blue uniforms and white hats of the representatives 
of the navy made a pleasing change. The naval 
officers wore white uniforms, presenting a natty ap- 
pearance, and there was a small detachment of 
"gobs" in whites. 

The New Brunswick representation in the navy 
was somewhat of ;« revelation to those who had 
thought that most of the local service men were in 
the land or air forces, and the crowds everywhere 

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greeted the sailors v/ith applause. There were two 
Naval Ail- Service men with the sailors. 

Company E of the New Jersey State Militia, 
carrying rifles, followed the service men. The mili- 
tiamen had a big turnout ,and they were given a 
good reception as they swung along. They were 
commanded by Captain Ralph Gorsline. 

This brought up the rear of the uniformed men, 
the line stretching close to half a mile. They were 
followed by the war workers who have been busy 
at home while the boys were away in camp and on 
the sea. 

About 150 Red Cross women workers in their 
natty white uniforms were in line, and they made a 
big hit all along the route of the parade. 

With the Red Cross delegation was the new ambul- 
ance belonging to the local chapter of the organiza- 
tio;i, and this attracted much attention from the by- 
standers along the line of march. 

Then came the school children. From the little 
youngsters who were barely able to toddle along with 
the procession to the bigger boys and girls who ev.- 
joyed the parade and were keenly conscious that 
they were honoring their big brothers of the city 
who had borne the brunt of the city's sacrifice, all 
were there, and about 1,000 of the youngsters were 
in line- 

They marched by schools, the pupils from each 
school wearing a distinctive paper hat. The various 
shapes and colors of the hats lent interest to the 
spectacle. Each child also carried an American flag- 

A most interesting feature of this division of ♦^he 
parade was the delegation of the Ecole Francaise of 
Milltown. About eighty of these youngsters, dressed 
in the national costumes of various French provinces, 
were in the parade, and all along the line thev 
made a big hit and attracted attention from the big 
crowd, as well as lei.ding color and variety to thi? 
scene. 

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS 

Following the school children came the uniformed 
guards of Goodwill and Good Intent Councils, Junior 
0. U. A. M- of this city heading the civic organiza- 
tions that had turned out to honor the service men. 

First place for the civic organizations was held by 
the Elks, headed by Voss's band of Newark. Fir.st 
place went to the organization that got into line fir.st 
and there was much rivalry about it. 

Headed by Grand Knight Finnegan, the New 
Brunswick Council, Knights of Columbus, jaraded 
second in line in the fraternal division. The Knights 
turned out three hundred strong and wore dark 
clothes, straw hats and carried small American flags. 
The Perth Amboy Italian band furnished oho music 
for the Knights who marched four abreast an '. made 
a neat appearance. 

Following the Knights came local Italian societies 

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with their own band- The Foresters with their colors 
paraded behind the Italians and following in lino 
were the Red Men who appeared in their Indian 
costumes. The Jr. O. U- A- M- including Goodwill 
Council and Good Intent Council were headed by 
bands and wore largely represented. The Juniors 
wore red, white and blue hat bands and carried 
"welcome home" pennants. 

The local Greeks made an impressive appearance. 
The Greeks who had served in the army marched in 
the front of the local societies and were warmly 
applauded throughout the line of march. Paraskivos 
Stamulos and Margus Councils, Balkan war veterans, 
in their Greek uniforms, carried the flags. 

The Loyal Order of Moose had a large delegation 
in line- The Moose carried small flags and were 
attired in dark clothes. The local colored Elks were 
attired in flannels, white shirts, purple ties and socks 
and white shoes. They wore straw hats and were 
escorted by a colored military band. 

There were numerous other fraternal, civic an-' 
social organizations in line including a delegation of 
firemen from the fire department who turned out 
with their apparatus. Assistant Chief Louis Sass led 
the firemen- 

The turnout of the various organizations was very 
gratifying. "'. he men paraded well and made an ex- 
cellent showing. In only a few instances were local 
organizations not represented. Most of the organi- 
zations carried their banners at the head of their 
processions together with Old Glory. 
THE FLOATS 
The Greek float made a big hit- It carried several 
girls dressed in ths flowing costumes of Greece of 
classic days and allegorically representing Greece's 
part in the war. 

The first was Mactdcnia, a former Greek province 
captured by the Turks, calling to the Allies to jom 
her mother, Greece. Epirus and Thrace were then 
shown calling the Allies to join Greece in the battle 
for liberty from the Turk. The third represented 
Smyrna seeking liberty and sympathizing with her 
allies- Then was Asia Minor, with a population of 
3,000,000 subjugated Greeks, calling to her mother, 
Greece, for liberty, rnd the fifth represented Greece 
and the Allies joining for liberty and Greece con- 
ferring a wreath upon Woodrow Wilson, the "Father 
of the War," and Eleutherios Venizelos, the "Father 
of Greece." 

Miss Blazakis represented Macedonia and Miss 
Evagelides represented Epirus and Thrace. Mrs. 
Stella Vei-urakis was Smyrna, Miss Elizabeth Boice 
was Asia Minor and Mrs. Irene Leontaridis was 
Greece. 

The floats were a most interesting feature. The 
War Camp Community Service had three good floats 
in line. Two of them showed how the men from the 
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luncheons for them during their leisure hours, the 
floats being fixed up like rooms. Ihe third one was 
a truck with the large bell from the Ind^a Rubber 
Company on it. 

The Golden Rod Council, of the Daughters of Lib- 
erty, had a float on which were a number of girls in 
white and broad rim hats with guns, who were 
guarding Columbia and Uncle Sam. 

The Salvation Anny had a float with a number of 
their workers, both in the costume of this side and 
the one which was worn while serving in France. 
They distributed doughnuts along the line of march. 

Unity Council's float showed Molly Pitcher man- 
ning a gun at the battle of Monmouth, and there 
were several women and men showing how the 
women went out on the field and acted as Red Cross 
nurses with the soldiers. 

There were several camouflaged army trucks in 
line. 

Major-General William Weigel, by request of the 
parade committee, discharged the parade after a 
review at Buccleucu Park, giving a short address 
from the grandstand at the Park. 

While the New Brunswick service men were march- 
ing in the parade that featured the city's Welcome 
Home Celebration, a small dark speck on the dis- 
tant horizon approached and was seen to be the air- 
plane that had been promised by the army authori- 
ties at Mineola, L. I., to help make New Brunswick's 
celebration a success. 

The aviator was Lieutenant Barksdale of Hazel- 
hurst Field, Mineola, who had been sent in response 
to the invitation of the aviation departnient of the 
parade committee. 

Lieutenant Barksdale landed on the grounds of 
the Parker Memorial Home. He had intended to 
land in Buccleuch Park but was unable to do so on 
account of a cross wind. The landing spot was not 
a good one, but no damage was done to the machine 
in coming to earth. 

With Lieutenant Barksdale was Sergeant Gilmour, 
a mechanic. 

They stayed on the ground for a little over half 
an hour and at about 5-20 they took the air again 
and made their way back to Mineola. 



THE DINNER 

But while all this celebrating was going on down 
town, up at Buccleuch Park, a corp of .women were 
working like beavers to have everything in trim for 
the feast these same boys were to have at the end of 
the marching. These women worked under the 
supervision of Mrs. Henry Seiffert, whose able ser- 
vice in arranging for the home welcome won for her 
the gratitude of the city. 

Upon reaching the park, ithe women were in wait- 
ing. Following a short address by Major General 
Weigel, the service men were escorted over to the 
pavilion, and there they were sei-ved with luncheon. 

Narly 500 men were to be seen gathered around 
the pavilion eating at one time. It was a most pleas- 
ant sight to behold. 

When they had finished their meal, the boys roam- 
ed about the park ind enjoyed a band concert. Hun- 
dreds of folks flocked to the park and a regular 
municipal picnic was in progress from the time of 
the terminaiton of the parade until evening when 
there was another pilgrimage to Livingston avenue 
where block dances were enjoyed. 

The signing of the treaty made the selection of 
the date for the parade a particularly happy thought, 
and the two celebrations were combined in one — one 
that was well worthy of this city and of the men 
who represented it. 

The war is over. May the memories of the boys 
who thought no sacrifice too great to protect their 
homes and the memory of this welcome that the 
city gave those of them who returned never pevish. 

The committee in charge of the Welcome Home 
reception was made up as follows: 

Edward J. Houghton, chairman; John J. Morrison, 
treasurer; Philip H. Bruskin, secretary; William C. 
Jaques, Joseph j. Feaster, Frank A. Connolly, El- 
mer E. Connolly, William A. Grobin, Alexander Gold, 
John Clark, J. Fred Orpen, Nicholas Cantore, John 
P. Wall, Fred Schumacher, Mrs. Henry Seifert, Fred- 
rick Gowen, Eugene Gedney, Charles Jackson, Jesse 
Strauss, Frank Deiner, Simon Shannon, Harry Perry, 
Levin Cephus, E. Vheofil, William H. Everson and 
Charles H. Morris, assisted by a number of men and 
women connected with the Red Cross Canteen of the 
W. C. C. S. 




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[TH DELEGATES present representing 
26 organizations of New Brunswick, 
Highland Park, Milltown and immediate 
vicinity, together with several hundred 
other patriotic men, women and (hil- 
dren, the Patriotic Force of New Brunswick vas for- 
mally organized on March 17, 1918. 

Mayor Edward F. Farrington was elected presi- 
dent; Mayor Russell E. Watson, of Highland Park, 
vice-president; Judge Freeman H. Woodbridge, treas- 
urer, and Jesse Strauss, secretary. 

Judge Peter F. Daly was the presiding officer and 
explained in detail the purpose of the organization 
and the results it was expected to obtain. 

The speakers of the afternoon were Henry G. Par- 
ker, president of the National Bank of New Jersey; 
the Rev. Herbert Parrish, rector of Christ Episcopal 
Church; the Rev. Dr. W. H. S. Demarest, president 
of Rutgers College; Mayors Farrington and Watson. 
In explaining the purposes of the meeting Judge 
Daly said that the formation of the Patriotic Force 
was the idea of the committee in charge of the two 
Liberty Loan campaigns. He said the Liberty Loan 
committee recognized the importance of cohesion 
of action in all war activities. 

"Not only do we seek to organize the Patriotic 
Force for the purpose of raising funds in various 
campaigns, but to increase the scope of patriotic 
work in New Brunswick and vicinity, with every ele- 
ment of our patriotic citizenship united. 

"We want to make New Brunswick a town ."!afe 
for the habitation of all genuine Americans, and only 
for them. We want to make New Brunswick a 
place where no slacker will dare to roam. This 
organization we want to represent every element of 
our citizenship, irrespective of social or religious 
ethics. We want every one to join as brother to 
brother, shoulder to shoulder and mind to mind, to 
the end that New Brunswick may give its mighty 
share to the task of making the world safe for 
democracy." 

Following his brief explanation of the purposes 
of the organization. Judge Daly presented Henry 
G. Parker, who he said was the father of the move- 
ment. 

Mr. Parker said: 

"We are engaged in a war which is a righteous 
war, a war that has stimulated us to sacrifice and 
valor, a war that will cost many lives and cause us 
much sorrow. 

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"Germany in her recent campaigns in Russia and 
other European nations has shown that she does not 
intend to give up soon. She is indicating by her 
actions that she is in the war to the finish. We 
must realize this and we must stir ourselves to such 
an effort as we have never made before. 

"In the last two Liberty loans, I heard men and 
women refuse to aid the Government by purcha.ving 
4 per cent loans. They refused to purchase bonds 
because, they said, they could loan their money for 
6 and 7 per cent. With that kind of patriotism, this 
country will never win the war. 

"There is another loan about to be launched which 
will need your undivided support. It will be a gi- 
gantic task to raise this loan, but I know the people 
of this city will not be found wanting. I would 
urge that you renew your pledges and approach 
the problems which will soon confront you in such a 
way as New Brunswick has never done before." 

The Rev. Herbert Parrish, who left a sick bed to 
mount the rostrum, declared that on this glorious 
day (March 17), the day when the good saint drove 
the snakes out of Ireland, it was a good time to 
begin driving the seditionists out of New Brunswick. 
"Ministers are often looked upon as sentimental- 
ists and often speak of sentiment. They are charac- 
terized as not knowing much about business, and 
seldom do they speak about business, but today I 
am going to speak of finance. In New Brunswick, 
in past campaigns, there has been an economic 
waste, resulting in many workers vieing with each 
other in an effort to solicit more funds than the 
other. 

"This rivalry exemplified an excellent spirit, but 
it means a waste of work and effort and frequently 
a waste of money. What we want in New Bruns- 
wick is a stronger union of all elements that go to 
make up our civic life, and in the formation of this 
organization, I believe, we have accomplished this 
purpose." 

The next speaker was President W. H. S. Dem- 
arest of Rutgers College, who declared that in these 
worthy campaigns it is not what is our share in this 
or that campaign, but what is our limit. That is 
what God is going to say about it. 

"God has put into us certain talents which he ex- 
pects to be returned with interest. He expects us to 
use these talents in this war to the fullest extent. 

"Unity makes strength. That is the lesson of to- 
day. There must be unity of purpose in these times, 
and upon every person devolves some responsibility 
for the winning of this war. It is the spirit that is 



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going to triumph in this great conflict. The candle 
is the spirit of the Lord, and in this conflict the 
candle is our spirit. 

"In this great war it is not only the great sacirfice 
of our boys whose blood will enrich the soil of 
France, but it is the sacrifice of the people at home, 
that will conquer. The folks at home must keep the 
home fires burning. We must make some saci-ifice 
to save and we must also make some sacrifice in our 
giving also." 

Mayor Russell E. Watson declared that for three 
years this country remained a spectator of the great 
war. The United States, so to speak, witnessed the 
war gaem from the grandstand. 

"With the declaration of war," said Mayor Russell, 
"appeals began to come in from the many govern- 
ment agencies, such as the Red Cross, the Young 
Men's Christian Association and the Knights of Cor 
lumbus, and each time the citizens of New Brunswick 
rallied to the support of these movements. And now 
the casualty lists are beginning to come in. First 
there appeared a few names on the list. Later, 
over a score of names, and within the past few days 
nearly a hundred, and soon, perhaps, there may be 
thousands and even tens of thousands. 

"The people of this city must realize that this 
country is in a war of democracy against autocracy. 
They must organize themselves for caring for the 
boys in the trenches; to care for their folks at home 
and to care for the boys themselves when they be- 
gin to come home disabled. With the organization 
of the Patriotic Force, we have an association truly 
democratic which should, with the co-operation of 
every society, care for these problems which continue 
to confront us." 

Following the address of Mayor Watson, in com- 
pliance with the constitution of the organization 
which had previously been adopted. Judge Daly ap- 
pointed a committee of fifteen as follows, to nomi- 
nate the officers of the association: 

Edward F. Houghton, Frederick Weigel, Charles 
A. McCoi-mick, Sydney B. Carpender, Meyer Feller, 
El-nest H. Webb, William R. Applegate, Daniel J. 
Wray, O. O. Sullivan, Thomas H. Cole, Mrs. A. L. 
Smith, Miss Cecilia Boudinot, Mrs. H. Rineberg, Miss 
Jane Ware and Miss Mary Taffe. 

This committee nominated the officers, as previ- 
ously given, who were elected by the delegates by a 
nuanimous vote. 

Following the election the convention was turned 
over to Mayor Farrington, who in his address said 
in part: 

MAYOR FARRINGTON'S ADDRESS 
"Ever since war was declared by the United States 
last April, nearly a year ago, there has not been a 
single moment when the great heart of this splendid 
old town of ours was not filled with a fighting ardor 
for our country's complete success. 



"Every duty has been fully met and every ser\'ice 
has been responded to with vigor and enthusiasm, 
and, I am proudly sure, to such a generous extent as 
has not been surpassed by any municipality of its 
size from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Red 
Cross, the Young Men's Christian Association, War 
Work, the Knights of Columbus Camp Fund, the 
Jewish Welfare Board and the Liberty loans, the 
enlistment of our men in the active fighting forces 
of America, these and all such great campaigns, 
movements and work authorized and approved by the 
National Government have been so powerfully and 
gloriously carried on in this community that New 
Brunswick's name stands high on the Roll of Honor 
in the records of State and National Governments. 

"And now you have inaugurated, from a civic 
standpoint, the biggest movement of all, for this is 
to be an organization that will bring into one great 
big, powerful whole, every unit that goes to make 
up the social, fraternal, religious, industrial, busi- 
ness, professional and educational life of the com- 
munity, and its grave and noble purpose is, through 
intelligent organization, co-operation and unity, to 
get the full advantage and power of the manhood, 
womanhood and even childhood of this great city 
unselfishly and completely engaged in the work of 
making the world safe for democracy, for humanity 
and for free living to all, in accordance with the love 
and the lav.- of the Eternal Father and Lawgiver. 

"I came here as one of the delegates of the Home 
Defense League to do my share in this organization. 
You have seen fit to honor me by making me its 
head, and I earnestly want you to know that I most 
deeply and gratefully appreciate this real distinction. 
At the same time I fully realize that acceptance of 
the presidency of the Patriotic Force of New Bnms- 
wick carries with it a large responsibility and work. 
My position as Mayor of the City of New Bi-uns- 
wick in these abnormal times is a much bigger task 
than that which follows the office ordinarily. 

"Still, in this serious time of our nation's life, it is 
not a question of what is a man's share, or of what 
a man can afford. It is a time for self-denial, for 
self-forgetfulness, and it is with this thought that I 
accept this place of high honor, responsibility and 
work, and in doing so I now ask the hearty co-opera- 
tion and active support of every man, woman and 
child in this city who is with America first, last and 
all the time." 

ROLL CALL 

During the convention the reading of the roster 

of delegates by Francis M. Yorston, secretary pro 

tem., resulted in the response of delegates from 125 

organizations, as follows: 

New Brunswick Castle, No. 71, K. G. E.— Chas. 
H. Schuyler, Thos. DePew, Chas. Martin, Frank Reed, 
George K. Snow. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



New Brunswick Lodge, No. 324, B. P. O. E. — Ed- 
ward F. Houghton, T. C. Preger, H. C. Young, V. S. 
Voorhees, William E. Hart. 

Craftsmen's CIub—E. H. Monaghan, Elmer Lowe, 
Eugene Viereck, A. R. Johnson, L. G. Frost. 

Christian Vv'omen's Community Club — Sarah O. 
Whitlock, Ella Whittaker, Mary Bergen, Mrs. Engle, 
Mrs. Relyea. . 

Loyal Order of Moose, No. 263— E. I. Cronk, R. S. 
Turton, Henry Amend, George 0. Conger, Charles H. 
Schlosser. 

New Brunswick Boat Club — E. V. Kent, John E. 
Clayton, William VanNuis, Theodore Whitlock, Rob- 
ert J. Smith. 

Middlesex County Bar Association— Thomas H. 
Hagerty, Edward W. Hicks, Walter C. Sedam, S. C. 
VanCleef, Frederick Weigel. 

New Brunswick Council, No. 257, Knights of Co- 
lumbus—James Hughes, Jr., Charles W. Dodge, John 
L. Daly, Thomas H. Hagerty, William R. Finnegan. 

Patrolmen's Benevolent Association— Leonard Hill, 
John Wilcox, George Cox, John Coleman, Elias 
Delanoy. 

Unity Council, No. 3, S. and D. of L.— Bessie Long, 
Mrs. E. Snow, Mrs. Hoffman, Mrs. Buckelew, Mrs. 
C. Britton. 

Home Defense League — Edward F. Farrington, 
Robert Carson, P. H. S. Hendricks, Joseph J. Feaster, 
Louis A. Wolfson. 

Boggs Janeway Post, No. 67, G. A. R.— Thomas S. 
Cole, Charles H. Elias, Edward Finnegan, David H. 
Weller. 

Retail Merchants' Association— G. H. Hullfish, 
Henry Gray, A. J. Gebhardt, Joseph Tiemey, John 
Robotham, Benjamin Read. 

New Brunswick Chapter of Hadassoh — Mrs. A. 
Levine, Mrs. R. Bamett, Mrs. S. Feller, Mrs. H. Eber, 
Mrs. A. Friedman. 

American Red Cross, New Brunswick Chapter — 
Dr. G. H. Payson, Freeman Woodbridge, J. J. Morri- 
son, R. W. Johnson, Dr. J. F. Anderson 

Knights of Columbus War Camp Fund — James F. 
Mitchell, Judge Peter F. Daly, W. H. Mansfield, 
James A. O'Connell, Alexander Gold. 

United States Food Administration — R. E. Ross, 
Rev. L. Chamberlain, P. J. Young, James M. Barke- 
lew. George D. Johnson. 

Jewish Welfare Board — Jesse Strauss, P. Bruskin, 
M. Feller, A. Jelin, A. Marcus. 

Four Minute Men— Samuel Schleimer, Prof. Liv- 
ingston Barbour, Rev. Herbert Parrish, Frank H. 
Skinner, Prof. John H. Logan. 

Boy Scouts of America — E. H. Webb, P. B. L'Hom- 
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medieu, W. F. Thomas, Joseph Heuther, Charles T. 
Stone. 

Jewish Relief Committee — Morris Bears, Jacob 
Jaffe, Harry Sokoway, S. H. Levin, Mrs. S. H. Levin. 

Good Intent Council,, Jr. O. U. A. M.— W. R. 
Thistle, L. W. Deyer, S. W. Latham, W. R. Apple- 
gate, H. E. Thistle. 

Jersey Blue Chapter, Daughters of the Americrji 
Revolution— Mrs. M. B. Vail, Mrs. M. A. Blake, Mrs. 
J. J. Morrison, Mrs. Asher Atkinson, Mrs. E. L. 
Barbour. 

Helvetia Lodge No. 71, I. 0. O. F.— Otto E. J. 
Lower, Ferdinand Quaid, Max Mandel, John Balts- 
weiler, John Ruprecht. 

Court Loretta, No. 287, National Order Dauglitcr.«i 
of Isabella — Miss Mary Taffe, Mrs. John Clinton, 
Mrs. Walter Burton, Miss Jane Corcoran, Mrs. J. 

Mitchell. 

The Alliance Francaise — Dr. Louis Bevier, Prof. 
E. B. Davis, Prof. L. W. Kimball, Mrs. H. M. Hut- 
ton, Miss Atkinson. 

Court New Brunswick, No. 40, F. of A. — Joseph 
Slingerman, Frank Zreres, Fred Meyers, John 
Schneider, Angelo Pelligane. 

Settlement House — Miss Florence Waldron, Sarah 
Hill, Miss Katherine Weigel, Mrs. H. Yarnall, Emma 
R. Stohr. 

Parent-Teacher Association of High School — Mrs. 
W. J. Francke, Mrs. John Buckelew, Mrs. M. T. Cook. 
Mrs. H. H. Gifford, Mrs. Charles Crauche 

The Day Nursery — Mrs. Charles McCormick, Mrs. 
Frank M. Donohue, Mrs. Selah Strong, Mrs. J. G. 
Lipman, Mrs. H. G. Parker. 

Exempt Fireman Association — Howard DeHart, 
Ralph Holman, Walter Church, Charles Smith, James 
Kidney. 

Palestine Lodge, No. Ill, F. and A. M.— Otto O. 
Stillman, John M. Araei!, William H. Ritter, George 
A. Clinton, S. A. Stephenson, Jr. 

New Brunswick Lodge, No. 61, I. O. 0. L.— Robert 
Hyde, William A. Redshaw, Joseph Fertig, Fred B. 
Tappen, Clarence Harra, Jr. 

Home Guard, New Brunswick — Robert Nicholas, 
P. L. VanNuis, E. H. Webb, R. W. Johnson, Charles 
Deshler. 

Fraternal Order of Eagles, No. 1329— A. VanDom. 
S. Shomo, T. H. Bates, W. Foimiier, Elias Ross. 

Letter Carriers of New Brunswick, Branch No. 444 
—Spencer Gardner, Elmer Gulick, G. W. Schlee, Eu- 
gene Pries, Jacob Knoll. 

Wray Memorial Chapel — George A. Glace, Mrs. 



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George A. Glace, Miss Ar.gie W. Wray, Mrs. Frank 
E. Miller, Daniel J. Wray. 

Volunteer Relief Committee — Miss Julia Jelin, 
Miss Rose Rubin, Miss Rebecca Schneier, Miss Lena 
Bravarman. 

Goodwill Council, No. 32 — Andrew W. Winckler, 
Robert C. Smith, William M. VanDom, F. W. Gov/en, 
Robert Carson. 

Women's Committee of the National Council of 
Defense — Mrs. J. Raven. Mrs. E. R. Payson, Mrs. 

E. Ives, Mrs. A. L. Smith, Mrs. E. H. Baibour. 
Hamilton School — Mrs. S. Beckwith, Miss Martha 

W. Worle, Miss Hetty Moore, Mrs. Harriet Fisher. 

Parent-Teacher Association, Oak Hill School, 
North Brunswick Township — Mrs. Isaac Terhune, 
Mrs. William Van Liew, Mrs. Gourley, Mrs. George 
Smith, Mrs. Andrew Vivan. 

Adelphic Council, Royal Arcanum — John W. 
Grymes, Hamlet E. Collins, George W. Van Vechten, 
William Thatcher, Charles Gensler. 

Union Lodge No. 19. — Robert Carson, Louis Wolf- 
son, E. W. Hicks, John Conger, George B. Rule. 

Board of Trade— W. G., Bearman, Fiynn Bros., W. 

F. Harding, L. H. Hoagland, N. H. Smith 

N. B. Equal Suffrage Society— Mrs. C. W. Stevens, 
Mrs. Sarah Atkinson, Mrs. Bruce. 

Sons and Daughters of Zion — Mr. Louis Siegel, 
Miss Rose Jelin, Miss Lillian Rombluth, Mr. Morris 
Spritzer, Miss Lillian Greenberg. 

Jev.'ish Socialist Zionist — Samuel Sachs, Nathan 
Madoff, W. Weinraub, H. Rubin, Samuel Siebeman. 

Ancient Order of Hibernians, Division No. 5 — C. 
Raymond Lyons, W. F. Harding, Patrick Henry, 
James Bergen. 

Brunswick Club — Frederick Conger, Suydam Ran- 
dall, Charles E. Tindell, Theodore Whitlock. 

Middlesex County Medical Society — Dr. S. C. Eng- 
lish, Dr. F. M. Donohue, Dr. A. L. Smith, Dr. P. S. 
Schureman, Dr. L. P. Runyon. 

Mercy Committee of New Jersey, New Brunswick 
Branch — Miss Adelaide Parker, Mrs. H. Schneweiss. 
Mrs. E. L. Barbour, Miss Margaiot Daly, Mr.. 
George M. Carter. 

Highland Park Parent Teacher Association — Mrs. 
H. M. Drake, M ;-.<=. H. Collins, Mrs. S. M. Christie, 
Mrs. M. Donald, Mrs. W. O. Whitney. 

Union Club — Geo. A. Viehmann, A. J. Jones, Ed- 
ward R. Van Pelt, W. J. McCurdy, Frank R. Jones. 

Knights of Pythias, Fiicnd^-hip Lodge, No. 30 — 
W. H. Everson, Ralph T. Holman, William Rastall. 
Harry Silverstein, Clarence H. Hill. 

Humane Society — E. V. Kent, Chas. J. Mount, H. 
Arbogast, Charles Morris, Asher Atkinson. 

Middlesex County Dental Society— Dr. G. S. Mc- 
Laughlin, Dv. Haivey Iredell, Dr. William Macon, 
Dr. Walter D. Rice, Dr. Frank L. Hindle. 

Middlesex County Auto Club — Louis A. Voorhees, 
Jameik A. Edgar, J. B. Wright, George Post, John- 



son Kenyon. 

Real Estate Board— H. P. Bickford, Andrew Kirk- 
patrick, James Harkins, W. D. Morrison, W. T. 
Metzrath. 

Lafayette School, Highland Park — iSIiss Mabel 
StoothoiT, Miss Bertha Snedeker, Miss Matilda 
Waker, Miss Helen Warle, Mrs. C. B. Rowland. 

Irving School, Highland Park — Miss H. Van Liew, 
Miss E. Mahnken, Miss L. Johnson, Miss A. Thick- 
stun, Mrs. Paul Smith. 

Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society — Mrs. L. Feller, Mrs. 
T. Coppleman, Mrs. M. Jelin, Mrs. C. Speyer, Mrs. 
R. Aaron 

Hebrew Ladies' Benevolent Society — Mrs. H. Rein- 
berg, Mrs. Samuel Levine, Mrs. H. Ornstein, Mrs. B. 
Marks, Mrs. N. Sontag. 

Hibernian Dramatic Club — William Moore, Paul 
Moore, J. Doi-gherty, P. N. Sweeney, G. A- Trainer. 

Spanish American War Veterans — Alfred H. 
Puerschner, George Baier, Fred Wa.svault, H. E. 
Austin, Joseph Hayter. 

U. S. Fuel Administration — Lewis A. Board, W. 
Frank Parker, John L. Bartholomew, Chester W. 
Wood, Jas. A. McGarry. 

Y. M. C. A. War Work Fund.— Sydney B. Car- 
pender, S. M. Lipscomb, W. R. Reed, H. R. Segoine, 
P. L. Van Nuis. 

War Saving Stamps — George F. McCormick, F. M. 
Joiner, John J. Monigan, Dr. Lawrence Mundy, B. J. 
Trumbull. 

First Reformed Church— Rev. J. S. Hogan, Mr. R. 
Sutphen, M. Wilson, S. K. Siver. 

Society of Faithful Lutherans — Helen Kraus, Ruth 
Leeman. 

Knights of St. Peter's — John Norris Harding, 
, John J. Kolb, Fred Eichler, William Danberry, Frank 
Reilly. 

St. Patrick's Alliance — William Conboy, Patrick 
McLaughlin, James McGowan, Daniel Daly. 

Love and Brotherhood Society — Albert I. Mata- 
rasso, Robert Fresco, Moise Veissid, A. Covo. 

Sons of Veterans — Louis Brovni, E. J. Cahill, 
Henry Seiffert, Louis DuBois, Albert Seiffert. 

Loyal T. Ives Co.— Everitt Quint, Samuel A. Ross, 
Elias A. Quint, Elmer Spratford. 

Excelsior Club — T. Scheumacher, William McCabe, 
M. O'Rourke, T. Corrigan. 

U. S. W. B.— George Baier, H. E. Austin, Jr., 
Alfred H. Puerschner, Mrs. A. B. Blauvelt. 

Red Cross — Mrs. Arthur Carpender, Mrs. John 
Deinzer, Molita Donohue. 

Ladies' Auxiliary, A. O. H.— Mrs. J. Hayes, Mrs. 
Mary Smith, Mrs. H. F. Dwyer. 

1%^ Club of Rutgers College— J. S. Underbill, H. 
W. Rogers, Walter E. Fleming. 

Zionist Camp, No. 100, Sons of Zions — M. Levine, 
H. Orenstein, M. Goldenber.g, M. Schwartzman, M. 
Frankel. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Building Trade Council — Edward Roamer, Martin 
Flynn. 

N. B. Aerie, No. 1329, F. 0. E.— E. F. Houghton, 
Thomas Bates, H. Van Doren, Samuel Shorn, E. 
Ross. 

Hod Carriers' Local 156 — G. Stellatelli, Tony 
Bianco, Robert Mason. 

Master Fainter and Decorators Association — H. L. 
Bartholomew, A. R. Reeves. 

Aurora Singing Society — William Smalley. M. 
Massing, G. Wittig. 

Webb Wire Works— L. Nagy, J. Gulgos, S. SteifT. 

N. B. Hebrew School— H. Eber. 

Court Marion, No. 84, F. of A.— C. H. Spratford. 

Liberty Loan Committee — R. E. Watson, E. E, 
Connolly, E. P. Darrow, Dr. W. H. S. Demarest, 
Chas. A. McCormick. 

Charity Organization Society — Mary Oakley Hay, 
Mrs. Gerard Swope, Mrs. Chas. Zimmerman, Miss 
Emma Cook, Miss J. Atkinson, Mrs. Max Lederer. 

City Improvement Society — Miss Demarest, Hiss 
C. E. Ives, Mrs. H. G. Parker, Miss E. Wilber, Mrs. 
M. T. Marvin. 

Ahander Tribe, No. 182, Improved Order of Red 
Men — Raymond P. Wilson, George E. Fulton, John 
W. Parsons, Thomas Terlin, N. D. Stroumtoss. 

The N. B. Housewives League— Mrs. F. R. Pratt, 
Mrs. L. D. Lindley, Mrs. D. M. Kinports, Mrs. A. N. 
Dunham, Miss Edith Deshler. 

St. Mary of Mt. Virgin Society — Joseph N. Can- 
tore, Carmleo Lautiss, Frank D'Onofris, lonato Del- 
boun, Emiles Cantore. 

Sons of Italy, Americo Vespuci Lodge, No. 277 — 
Thos. J. Pepitone, Vincenzo Ferreri, Carmelo Valenti, 
Charles C. Calomia, Carmelo Anghelone. 

Independent Labor, S. B. Association — M. Katz, 
M. Handel, H. Reinberg, H. Levin, M. Levin. 

Golden Rod, No. 20, Daughters of America — Mrs. 
E. Kohrherr, Mrs. C. Schuyler, Mrs. C. Perkins, Miss 
M. Perkins, Mr. C. Schuyler. 

Boy Scouts of America— W. E. Staat, C. H. Con- 
ners, Albert Moore, Joseph Howard, W. W. Smith. 

Visiting Nurses' Association — Mrs. J. F. Ander- 
son, Mrs. J. A. Ingham, Mrs. Clarkson Runyon, Miss 
Elizabeth B. Strong, Mrs. W. H. Waldron. 

Ruth Chapter, No. 12, O. E. S.— Mrs. H. McCal- 
lum, Mrs. R. Morrison, Mrs. M. Flavell, Mrs. Britting- 
ham, Mrs. R. Baner. 

Trades and Labor Federation — W. MacMullen, 
Adam Paulus, Fred Kobler, Loan Thompson, Ralph 
Holman. 

Rogers Council, No. 51, C. B. L.— John H. Miller, 
James F. Kidney, William F. Harding, Frank X. 
Doerr, John Dobermiller. 

Bethlehem Star Lodge No. 1, O. S. of B.— Mrs. 
Mary Monaghan, Mrs. Bessie Long, Mrs. Anna Staat, 
Mrs. Mary Hendricks, Mrs. Mary E. Duncan. 

Division No. 10, A. 0. H.— Thos. F. Boylan, J. 

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Alton Moran, Martin Clark, Joseph M. Hayes, John 
Moran. 

Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union No. 196. — 
Wilson MacMullen, Addison Clarke, Charles Rnpp. 

The College Women's Club of New Brunswick — 
Miss Bevier, Mrs. W. R. Newton, Mrs. J. H. Raven, 
tion of Machinists — William H. Cawman, Charles S. 
Danner, William B. Reynolds, Charles P. Gibson, 
Frank A. McKinney. 

Deutsche Frauen Lodge No. 41, I. O. O. F.— Mrs. 
John Schurr, Mrs. C. Lorber. 

Young Women's Hebrew Association — Sadie Rod- 
bortt, Roslyn Shapiro, Mae Schwartz, Anna Levinson, 
Rose Kornbluth. 

Ladies' Auxiliary of the Young Men's Hebrew 
Association — Mrs. Phillip Bruskin, Mrs. Meyer Fel- 
ler, Mrs. Abraham Jelin, Mrs. Jesse Strauss, Mrs. 
Joseph Feinsod. 

New Bi-unswick Lodge No. 48, O. I. O. B. A.— 
Rev. Samuel Ratner, Harry Orenstein, R. Bamett, 
J. B. Grossman, M. Greenberg. 

Lord Stirling School — Miss Martha Long, Miss 
Saidee Smith, Miss Jane Seward, Miss Helen Road, 
Miss Romayne Thi-ush. 

Nathan Hale School — Miss Amanda Voorhees, Miss 
Laura Hughes, Miss Carrie Rule, Miss Madeline 
Oley, Miss Jeanette Tuttle. 

Bayard School — Miss Cecelia Boudinot, Miss 
Florence Hosmer, Miss Anna Rastall, Miss Anna 
Quinn, Miss Mary Ronalder. 

Livingston Grammar — Mr. J. Kenneth Satchell, 
Miss Mary Hartshorne, Miss Margaret C. Wall, Miss 
May Bogan, Miss Chrissie Bartle. 

Washington School — Miss Eleanor Lott, Miss Irene 
Dunham, Miss Edith Gowen, Miss Lucy Litterst, 
Miss Arvada Finn. 

Lincoln School — Miss Grace March, Miss Helen 
Morrison, Miss Jessie Morrison, Miss Marie Wilby, 
Miss Hill. 

Livingston Primary — Miss Cornelia Schroeder, 
Miss Millicent Dunham, Miss Mildred Long, Miss 
Susie Dougan, Miss Susie Felter. 

High School— Mr. Leon A. Campbell, Miss Linette 
Lee, Miss Julia Kremer, Miss Mary Stoner, Miss 
Louise Chase. 

Parent-Teacher Association of Lord Stirling School 
— Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Russell Howell, Mrs. Earle Owen, 
Mrs. Levine, Miss Sarah 0. Whitlock. 

Parent-Teacher Association of the Nathan Hale 
School— Mrs. Nicholas Lens, Mrs. Edward Amrein, 
Mrs. J. Goodheart, Mrs. John Steinmacher, Mrs. 
Arthur Hahn. 

Parent-Teacher Association of the Bayard School 
— Mrr. Mary Hall, Mrs. Henry Seiffert, Mrs. John 
Paulus, Mrs. Jacques. 

Parent-Teacher Association of the Livington School 
— Mi-s. James Phyfe, Mrs. Harold Ramage, Mrs. 



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Charles Appleby, Mrs. S. K. Siver, Mrs. W. G. Cle- 
land. 

Parent-Teacher Association of the Washington 
School— Mrs. P. R. Morris, Mrs. William Snediker, 
Mrs. Owen Swain.Mr s. Hamed, Miss Carolyn Plcch- 
ner. 

Parent-Teacher Association of the Lincoln School — 
Mrs. Owen Swain, Mrs. Hamed, Miss Carolyn Plech- 
Mrs. William Rastall, Mrs. J. Rule, Mrs. Willam 
Teusch, Mrs Irving Quackenboss, Mrs. B. Friedman, 
Mrs. John P. Wall. 

Holy Namo Society, of St. John's Church— William 
C. Gonch. 



Craftsm-jn's Club — Elmer Lowe and Edward 
Veirick. 

Middlesex County Poultry Association — H. R. 
Lewis. 

Hungarian Liberty Society — Edward Gross. 

Congregation Achvas Achim — W. Wolff. 

Hungarian Newspaper, Megyar Herald — Lewis P. 
Kuhn. 

Society of Blessed Virgin Mary, Italian Church — 
Steve Matur. 

St. Laudislaus Church — Adalbert Pogany. 

Camp hi, P. O. S. of A. — Edward Schneider. 

Relief Council— I. Bodno, J. H. Hoagland. 

Laurel Club — Jane Ware, Mary Gleason. 



Tlh® S(sMkir§' WeliFaiire mmd Farow©! 



The Soldiers Welfare and Farewell Committee 
was originally appointed by Mayor Farrington to 
arrange for the farewell reception tendered to Co. 
H and consisted of fourteen members. 

At the final meeting held to wind up the affairs 
incident to the Co. H reception it was found that a 
balance of the funds contributed to defray the ex- 
pense of the same remained unexpended. What to 
do with the balance was a question that could not 
be decided. Upon the suggestion of the Mayor a 
committee consisting of John J. Morrison, John P. 
Wall, J. Fred Orpen, Milton Strauss and F. M. Yors- 
ten, with the Mayor as chairman, was appointed for 
the duration of the war, to look after the comfort 
and welfare of the men leaving this city for camp. 

The balance on hand was turned over to this com- 
mittee as a nucles for a fund to be used to hire 
music and purchase tobacco and other comtorts to be 
presented to the men upon their departure for the 
training camps. 

This committee made all arrangements for the 



farewell parades and receptions tendered the boys 
upon their departure from this city. 

Around this committee was built the larger com- 
mittees that managed the many affairs that took 
place during the war, also the committee appointed 
to arrange for a memorial to the soldiers from this 
city. Upon the death of Mayor Farrington the 
chairmanship devolved upon Mr. Morrison who was 
elected to succeed Mr. Farrington as Mayor of the 
city. 

The committee did not confine itself to local sol- 
diers and sailors in the distribution of funds, but 
made donations to the Colonia Hospital, Canteen for 
war work at Camp Raritan, also the Canteen and 
Service Club of New Brunswick. This committea 
disbanded on April 8, 1910, at which time it donated 
the balance remaining in its treasury, $605.61 to 
the committee appointed to welcome the soldiers 
home from war. 

This was the only committee that had a continual 
existence for the full period of the war and filled a 
very necessary place during those stirring days. 




"CLIFF" BAKER 
He Sure was Lucky 



Seventy-five 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



FmairacBal War Sunmmary of N®w IBiruairaswnck 

RECORD OF THE FIVE LOANS 

The following figures show New Brunswick's quotas for the five Lib- 
erty Loans, amounts subscribed and amounts of over-subscription: 



First Loan 
Second Loan 
Third Loan 
Fourth Loan 
Fifth Loan 

Total . 



Quota 
$ 1,702,000.00 
2,553,000.00 
1,505,800.00 
3,011,500.00 
2,218,200.00 



Subscription Over-Subscribed 



$ 1,800,000.00 
2,900,000.00 
2,139,050.00 
3,633,100.00 
2,660,700.00 



98,000.00 
347,000.00 
633,250.00 
621,600.00 
442,500.00 



$10,990,550.00 $13,132,850.00 $2,142,350.00 



CAMPAIGN FUNDS 

Co. H. Reception Fund 

Soldiers' Farewell and Welfaie Fund 

Permanent Blind Relief 

War Camp Community 

Armenian and Syrian Relief 

K. of C. War Camp Fund (Members) 

War Library Fund 

Y. M. C. A. War Fund (Taft meeting) . . 

Y. M. C. A. War Fund 

Red Cross War Fund 

Salvation Army 

First Red Cross Membership Drive, May, 1917 
Red Cross Christmas Membership Diive, 1917 

Jewish War Fund 

K. of C. War Fund 

Permanent Blind Relief 

Billard Players Ambulance Fund 

Italian Relief 

Palestine Restoration Fund 

Smileage Books 

Camp McClellan Fund for Co. H. . . 

Se3ond Red Cross War Fund . . - 

Jewish War Relief . - _ . 

S-'uth Amboy Relief 

United War Work Campaign 

To equip stage, Y. M. C. A. Hut, Camp Raritan 

Red Cross Roll Call, Christmas, 1918 

Red Cross Roil Call, Christmas - 

Welcome Home Reception . . . 

Armenian Relief _ . . — . 

Polish Relief 

Salvation Army _. . _ 

Permanent Blind Relief _ . . - 

Home Defense League _ - — — _.... 

Total 



Campaign Funds 

Summary — Thrift Stamps 
Liberty Loans 



62 

23 

4, 

114. 

15, 

10 

10, 

10 

1, 

9, 

1 

23, 



479,25 
677.81 
518.50 
650.00 
140.00 
168.40 
145.39 
400.00 
000.00 
071.15 
809.50 
116.00 
007,00 
004.35 
983.63 
503.00 
533.00 
637.75 
,165.00 
,000.00 
485.00 
,271.58 
500.00 
COO.OO 
16929 
250.00 
572.54 
101.94 
105.61 
000.00 
007 00 
744.82 
025.00 
997.31 



$413,240.80 

413,240.80 

321,446.61 

13,132,850.00 



Grand Total 



._....$13,867,537.41 



Seventy-six 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



FHEST LIBERTY LOAM 




Chairman HENRY G. PARKER 

Secretary F. M. YORSTON 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



DR. AUSTIN SCOTT 
J. W. JOHNSON 
CHARLES E. DAVIS 
N. G. RUTGERS 
A. J. JONES 



E. W. HICKS 

CHAS. A. McCORMICK 

W. J. McCURDY 



S. B. CARPENDER 
ERNEST H. WEBB 
E. R. VAN PELT 



ELMER E. CONNOLLY J. K. RICE, JR. 



GEORGE A. VIEHMANN 
JAMES DESHLER 
CHAS. J. SCUDDER 
W. H. GREEN 
H. G. PARKER 



New Brunswick's Quota $1,702,000 



Subscribed _ $1,800,000 




HE call to subscribe to the First Liberty 
Loan was a big occasion in New 
Brunswick, as throughout the country. 
The notice sent out by Henry G. 
Parker, chairman of the Liberty Loan 
Committee was as follows: 
Dear Sir: 

"WAR, This is what we are in for. If your house 
had been ransacked and burned and your relatives 
and friends had been outraged, as have the Belgians 
and French, you would be bursting with rage, and 
ready to fight, and fight to the finish. 

"Bombs with long but perfect connections have 
been set under the foundations of our government, 
and the fuse is burning towards our shore. Shall 
we wait till the terrible explosion takes place, or 
shall we act now? 

"Is it not better for our soldiers to fight on foreig:n 
shores, thereby saving our own land from the devas- 
tation of War, and help to sustain the hands of our 
allies, than to wait until they are conquered and we 
have to bear the full force of the blow? 



"Our immediate necessity is money to train, arm, 
clothe and feed our soldiers and sustain our Allies 
until we can go to their assistance. The government 
commands New Brunswick to sell $1,702,000 in 
bonds. We have sold $1,150,000, leaving nearly 
$600,000 to be sold to come up to our apportionment. 
WE MUST NOT BE LEFT IN THE SLACKERS 
CLASS. 

"The Committee proposes a canvass of every home 
in the city to sell a bond. Will you VOLUNTEER 
to help? If so, call at the headquarters of the 
Home Defense League any time tomorrow, Saturday 
afternoon or evening, up to nine o'clock and get the 
necessary instructions. 

"HENRY G. PARKER, Chairman, 
LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE." 

The call of the Republic for the aid of its citizens 
in its hour of danger was given a hearty response by 
the people of New Brunswick at a great Liberty 
Loan mass meeting held in the Ballantine Gymna- 
sium on June 5, 1917. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



"The war must be won, and we must have money 
to win," was the plea of the speakers, and New 
Brunswick, thrilled as never before, sent back the 
answer. As Judge Peter F. Daly expressed it, "Once 
this Liberty Loan is explained there is no chance that 
the rank and file of the people will fail to support 
it to the limit of their ability." 

"We are starting a fire," said former Mayor Austin 
Scott, the chairman, in opening the meeting, "not 
the kind that is devastating Europe, but a construc- 
tive fire, the backfire that is to stop the course of 
the Pi-ussian devastation. We are seeking a divine 
spark, and if there is such a spark in you, you must 
join." And this was an able summarization of the 
spirit that moved the meeting. 

Chairman Scott was introduced by Henry G. 
Parker, chairman of the local Liberty Loan Com- 
mittee. 

PUTNAM SOUNDS CALL 

"The call of the republic is being sounded," were 
the opening words of Major George Haven Putnam, 
Civil War veteran and a writer and speaker of 
national repute on the war situation and one of the 
first to head the fight for preparedness. "The call of 
the republic is being sounded, and we must answer." 

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's 
,d as true now as when Christ said it," he continued. 
"The republic, which has taken the place of an Im- 
perial Dictator, calls for its dues. Its continued 
existence depends upon the service of its citizens. 
And our call is a special one, for the government 
that calls is one that we have chosen by our own 
votes. It is actuated by no dreams of imperial 
aggression but it calls for the defense of liberty." 

The United States, Major Putnam continued, has 
"rather heedlessly" assumed many obligations in the 
past but it has been less ready to carry them out. 
In these he included the Monroe Doctrine, and said 
that the nation has "talked big but has done little" 
to make good on this. Now, however, we are called 
to make good, and we are realizing how we have 
failed to organize our resources. 

TPJBUTE TO BRITAIN 

"Up to this time the Monroe Doctrine has been 
maintained not by us but by the British fleet, and 
it is time for us to acknowledge it. We are enter- 
ing the war none too soon to help Britain in return 
for what she has done for us. 

"And we must also fight if we are to avoid the 
fate of Belgium, and the murder of Armenia, the 
greatest crime of modem times, for which not only 
Turkey is responsible, but the directing force at 
Berlin thai guided it all the time." 

The wonderful military macliinery of Prussianism, 
dominated by greed for dominion, must be kept from 
our shores. We must defend our ideals. 

"I have feared two things, either that the Allies 
would win before the United States acted to show 

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its recognition of its duty to the world, or that Ger- 
many would win and make us impotent to help." 

For that would, indeed, have been the result, 
had Germany won. The speaker declared that he 
had been a student in Gennany and that in the 
lecture halls there the doctrine of Germany's divine 
right to take everything it wanted had been openly 
preached and that no secret had been made of the 
plans for German control in America. 
ATTACKS PACIFISTS 

Major Putnam extolled President Wilson's patriotic 
endeavors but he said the people of the country had 
been confused by such phrases as "the war is no 
concern of ours" and "peace without victory" which 
had held the nation back. 

"What would 'peace without victory' mean to a 
Belgian whose women had been carried into slavery," 
he thundered, "or to an Armenian. We want peace 
with justice, the only kind that can be sure and 
worth while, the only kind that will remove the seeds 
of future wars." 

The speaker also assailed the pacifists, both the 
"good men and women in the worst sense of the 
tenn" and those actuated by laziness or cowardice, 
and declared that President Lincoln understood tliem 
and knew how to deal with them when he declared 
of the Civil War, "This war was begun with a pur- 
pose, and please God it will continue until that pur- 
pose is accomplished." 

"Today we are fighting against slavery, and the 
pacifists who would stop the war because of its hor- 
rors are really doing the work of militarism." 

"We veterans look to you boys, who have just 
registered, to maintain the ideals of the republic. 
It is not the property of any one generation, but a 
tnist to be handed down. If you fail, not in loss of 
territory nor in payment of indemnities, bad as they 
are, but if you fail to fight for the ideals of the 
nation, you will be untrue to your trust." 
PEOPLE AT HOME HELP 

And the people at home can help just as much as 
those who fight- The Civil War was won by the 
persistency of the people back of the lines, and this 
war must be won in the same way. 

"Our Revolution was fought for Liberalism in 
England as well as here. Now we go to help 
our old mother country and our ally, France, 
to avenge the martyrdom of Belgium and repair her 
sacrifice. The heroic Belgians are comparable only 
to the heroic Spartans at Thermopylae, who held 
the pass against the Huns of their day until civili- 
zation could be saved. 

"And now," he concluded, "we are to take their 
places and to see that government of the people, for 
the people and by the people shall not perish from 
the face of the earth." 

Major Putnam was given a tremendous ovation as 
he concluded, and Chairman Scott seized the op- 



N THE WORLD WAR 



portunity to remind the audience that money is what 
is needed to win the war and that the Liberty Loan 
must be oversubscribed. 

MONEY TO WIN WAR 

The Liberty Loan was put squarely up to the 
people of New Brunswick by Col. C. E. Mitchell, 
president of the National City Company and head of 
the Liberty Loan subscription. "We are at war and 
war needs money," he declared. "When the Ger- 
mans crossed into Belgium our own liberty was en- 
dangered. The first step to preserve it is to sub- 
scribe the Liberty Loan." 

In terse, clear, straight-from-the-shoulder phrases, 
he made clear to the big audience just how badly the 
loan was needed and explained the way in which the 
Liberty Loan subscription was to be conducted. "We 
haven't the 'advantage' Great Briiain has of having 
bombs dropped in our cities to awaken the people, 
but we have the U-boats. 

"Personally, I think the U-boat problem will be 
solved, but it is a menace. 

"And our great danger is Russia. Nothing is be- 
ing done on the eastern front, and though I doubt 
that a separate peace will be made, it is possible that 
it will be worse, and that Russi.i will really, though 
not in name, become the ally of Prussianism. Six 
million men will be released from the Russian front, 
and limitless supplies will reach Germany. And the 
longer the war lasts, the bigger will be dhe burden 
the United States must bear." 

EDUCATED TO BUY BONDS 

Col. Mitchell said that Americans had not been 
educated as bond buyers as Europeans have, but we 
must get the habit. 

It will mean economies. We must eliminate 
luxuries. This will not unsettle business be- 
cause those now engaged in making luxuries will turn 
to making war necessities, and the great sums to 
be spent by the government will cause great pros- 
perity. The speaker declared that ithere would be 
five jobs for every person thrown out of work. "And 
it is a fine chance for women to be good soldiers, 
for the men will be just as good and no better than 
the women they leave at home." 

As Col. Mitchell concluded, Dr. Scott asked all who 
had bought bonds to stand. About 100 persons rose. 
All who intended to buy were then asked to rise, and 
the rest of the audience got up as a single person. 
Dr. Scott reminded them that they could subscribe in 
the lobby, and Col. Mitchell reminded them of the 
advertising slogan, "Eventually — why not now?" 

In introducing the next speaker. Judge Daly, Dr. 
Scott said: "When he is on the bench we call him 
'your honor,' but now we call him Mhe darling Peter 
Francis of New Brunswick.' " Dr. Scott spoke highly 
of Judge Daly's efforts in the Naturalization Court: 
to impress new citizens with the solemnity and 
dignity of American citizenship. 



After such an explanation of the Liberty Bonds as 
Col. Mitchell had given, Judge Daly said in opening, 
the rest would be easy. "Now that New Brunswick 
understands there is no doubt is to the rest. As the 
French indemnity in 1871 was paid from the funds 
in the stockings of the honest peasant women of 
France, so will this loan be paid by the savings of 
the American people." 

Love of country is the strongest trait of humanity, 
and it is based on civic patriotism. We should be 
proud of such a home town as sturdy old New Bruns- 
wick, he said, and the city is sure to do its part in 
the loan subscription. 

Referring to the registration he declared that there 
were no deliberate slackers in New Brunswick. "11 
any failed to register they belong either in an in- 
stitution for the criminally sick or for the mentally 
ill." 

"Our boys are ready to do their duty. Are we 
ready to do ours. They say, 'We have invested our 
lives for you, will you invest your money for us?' 
Soldiers and sailors alone can't win. We must put 
money behind the men behind the guns. 

"You need have no fear, Mr. Mitchell," he con- 
tinued, addressing the previous speaker, "the mass 
of the people will support the loan. They will not 
leave it to the rich alone. 

"The crying demand is for the sustenance of war. 
Men are needed, but munitions are needed more." 
PLEA FOR RED CROSS 

Judge Daly also made a stirring apepal for the 
Red Cross. "The men have the glory and chivalry 
of war, if there is any left," he said. "But the 
women are bigger than that. They should have equal 
rights and more, too. They are away beyond us- 

"At the beginning of the war the American Red 
Cross was the last in the list. Now it is better than 
that, but we must do more. The heart of the 
American people is there and we must help. 

"There is the work in the field, but there is also the 
relief work at home. We mu.it not forget the no- 
ble women who made us so proud on Memorial Day. 
In the dignity of glorious womanhood, they can teach 
us what real sacrifice is. Get behind them. Our boys 
are leaving. It is both sorrowful and joyous. But 
the women are staying behind, and theirs is the 
harder task. 

"The flag is not a thing of bunting and of color, 
but a glorious representation of the fundamental 
principles of truth and justice and the redress of 
human wrongs. We are carrying it to aid suffering 
human-kind and to win the peace of God that passeth 
understanding." 

As Judge Daly concluded, the audience burst into a 
wild outburst of applause that lasted for several 
minutes. The demonstration was tremendous. 

Rev. James F. Devine, of the Sacred Heart Church, 
pronounced the benediction. 



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■jlij'KVlC 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



SECOMD LIBERTY LOAM 




Chairman HENRY G. PARKER 

Vice Chairman WILLIAM J. McCURDY 

Secretary-Treasurer F. M. YORSTON 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

EDWARD W. HICKS HENRY G. PARKER CHAS. A. McCORMICK 
WILLIAM J. McCURDY, A. J. JONES J. K. RICE, JR. 

F. M. YORSTON 

Campaign — October, 1917. 
Headquarters — Home Defense League 
109 Albany Street 

New Brunswick's quota $2,553,000 

Subscribed $2,900,C0D 

Campaign expenses paid for by assessment upon 
members of the General Committee. 




VERY seat in the Opera House was 
filled and hundreds were standing 
when the Second Liberty Loan bond 
mass meeting opened on the evening 
October 14, 1917. 
Dr Austin Scott was the chairman of the meet- 
ing which began at 8:15 o'clock. Every seat was 
filled; the boxes were overflowing, scores stood in 
the back of the auditorium — upstairs and down, and 
many were accommodated on the stage. 

Opening prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. George H. 
Payson. 
The first speaker was Senator William E. Florance. 

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"This is the greatest crisis the world has ever 
faced," he said, "and I share the feeling with every 
patriotic American that our nation will not be found 
wanting. We are called upon to give twenty-one bil- 
lions of dollars, an almost incalculable sum of money. 
But we will do it. We are asked to assemble two 
million men, and put them into the battlefield. We 
have those men in training or in the field now. 

"WE MUST STAND BY" 

"Our country is standing by, ready to do its bit. 
And so is our town, New Brunswick, standing by, 
ready to do her bit, too. Time was, you know, when 




JAMES W. JOHNSON 
Chairman of the Third and Fourth Liberty Loans 




ROBEET E. ROSS, 

Liberty Loan Campaign Manager, County Food 

Administrator 




SIDNEY B. CARPENDER, 
Chainnana United War Drive 




J. KEARNEY RICE, SR. 
ChaiiTnan 



]M©o Om© 





DR. E. I. CRONK 
Medical Officer 



ELMER E. CONNELLY 
Secretary 




PETER F. DALY 

Liberty Loan Campaign Manager Chairman, 

K. of C. Drive. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



we were considered a pretty cold proposition in this 
town. We were said to be niggardly and miserly and 
small. But that was quite a spell ago. This town 
woke up to its responsibilities, it seems to me, when 
the campaign for the new Y. M. C. A. building was 
on, and we raised $175,000 and thought nothing of it. 
And I recall that New Brunswick willingly and 
promptly, gave $25,000 to the Red Cross, and another 
?20,000 for the war work of the Y. M. C. A. And 
the Young Men's Hebrew Association has done its 
ftit, and the Knights of Columbus has done its bit. 

And now that it has come to pass that our gov- 
ernment needs more money with which to back up 
our men, I know we are going to respond nobly and 
quickly as the true Americans, the genuine patriots, 
and we will stand by to give every man and every 
dollar in this fight to erase the bloody hand of the 
Hun from the face of the earth." 

Mrs. Hults sang a delightfully sympathetic and 
appropriate song, "0, Lord of Life," at this point, 
and was warmly applauded. 

Dr. Chamberlain gave some first hand experiences 
he had only that year while in the Persian gulf. He 
told of the inherent treachery of the Hun character 
that was exhibited in its fullest development in this 
war crisis. 

"The Gei-man government as it is now composed, 
is a menace to the peace of all people," he said. 
"The Hun is a menace to human relationship, and 
because of ithis, he must be forever disarmed, or 
he must be erased from existence. To accomplish 
this great task, to achieve this duty, we must have 
the men and the equipment. We already have the 
men. We must have the money. That is why I say 
to you that it is your plain duty, it is your insurance 
premium for peace and safety for America, that you 
should buy Liberty bonds." 

The last speaker was Mr. Benson. He wore the 
uniform of the American Ambulance. 



Mr. Benson, speaker for the Liberty Loan cam- 
paign meetings, seemed to sense a little wave of sur- 
prise passing over the big audience, when he spoke 
of leaving the Presbyterian ministry to go over to 
France to give his services to the cause. 

"Oh, all of us ministers do not have long, gray 
whiskers, you know," he smiled. "Really, you'd be 
surprised to know how up-to-date some of us are be- 
coming." The crowd laughed delightedly. 

Mr. Benson made a brief but stirring appeal for the 
Liberty Loan. 

"If you could realize what I know, that issue would 
be bought up before tomorrow's nightfall," he said 
gravely. "If you could have seen what war means, 
as war is reckoned today, you would pour more and 
more billions into the government's war chests to 
stop this war now. And money will do it." 

He related experiences in Belgium. 

"I saw graves there where hundreds were 
buried, one corpse piled on top of another. These 
dead men and women and crowds of children 
had been shot down by the machine guns of the 
Huns, for no greater crime than that they were 
citizens of Belgium. I can assure you that there has 
never been a more terrible, bestial, brutal man to 
walk God's earth, than this 'super-man' of the Ger- 
man empire as he considers himself today. We are 
fighting a nation of maniacs; a whole country, a 
whole people, whose brains have gone crooked. 

"The Kaiser and Von Tirpitz and Hindenburg have 
all said this: 'We are at the fateful hour, now that 
America is in the war. We must preserve our super- 
iority over the world by our might!' 

"Well, by God, we have come now," cried Benson, 
"and we shall show them what might means." 

The crowd rocked and yelled its approval, and went 
home with a determination to buy bonds and clean 
up William the Wicked and his horde of Huns. 




LIEUT. L. S. WEBB AND HIS 
ARABIAN CHARGER 



Eighty-one 



NEW BRUNSWICK 




Chairman. JAMES W. JOHNSON 

Vice Chairman. WILLIAM J. McCURDY 

Vice Chairman -J. K. RICE, JR. 

Secretary-Treasurer JP. M. YORSTON 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
S. B. CARPENDER J. K. RICE, JR. EDWARD W. HICKS N. G. RUTGERS 

EDW. F. FARRINGTON T. ELY SCHENCK JAMES W. JOHNSON RUSSELL E. WATSON 

A. J. JONES H. H. WEIDA WILLIAM J. McCURDY R. G. WRIGHT 

R. W. JOHNSON E. E. CONNOLLY HENRY G. PARKER F. M. YORSTON 

ABRAHAM MARCUS 

New Brunswick's Quota $1,505,800 Subscribed $2,139,050 




ASTING aside all political animosities, 
the Republican and Democratic county 
committeemen united their forces at a 
meeting held in the Court House, and 
arranged for assuming the burden of 
work in the Third Liberty Loan canvass. This was 
the first time the committeemen were ever called 
upon to perform a function of this sort. In the two 
previous loans, a general call was made for volun- 
teers to canvass the city. 

The coterie of Democrats were led by County 
Chairman Thos. H. Hagerty, who pledged the un- 
divided support of the Democratic "machine" in this 
patriotic movement. He declared every committee- 
man of the city would participate in the campaign 
and do his utmost to make it a success. 

State Committeeman James A. Morrison spoke for 
the Republican committeemen and declared that the 
Republican organization of New Bi'unswick was 
ready at all times to stand behind the President, and 
in this movement, he said, the Republicans would not 
be found wanting. 

Mayor Edward F. Farrington presided at the gath- 
ering and the members of the Liberty Loan organiza- 

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tion committee consisting of Judge Peter F. Daly, 
Robert E. Ross, Henry G. Parker, Theodore Whitlock, 
Clifford I. Voorhees, James K. Rice, Jr., Elmer R 
Connolly, Robert W. Johnson and Francis M. Yor- 
ston, were in attendance. James W. Johnson, general 
chairman of the committee, was also present. 

Judge Daly, chairman of the organization commit- 
tee, outlined to the committeemen just what was 
expected of them. He spoke of the confidence that 
the committee had in the party workers and because 
of the very fact that the campaign is to be a non- 
partisan one, success would surely be attained. 

As was confidently predicted from the very open- 
ing of the drive, New Brunswick went "over the 
top" with glowing colors. 

Never did the committee doubt that they would 
attain the quota, and after the first two days of the 
campaign, the committee voluntarily raised the mini- 
mum quota to $2,000,000. With this amount as the 
goal, the woi-kers bent evei-y effort to reach it. This 
city went one step further and subscribed $2,139,050. 

This was a wonderful showing and those who had 
charge of the campaign were more than pleased with 
the way in which the people of this city responded. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



FOURTIHI LIBERTY LOAM 




Chairman JAMES W. JOHNSON 

Vice Chairman WILLIAM J. McCURDY 

Vice Chairman J. K. RICE, JR. 

Secretary-Treasurer F. M. YORSTON 

Asst. Secretary G. P. MONTRASTELLO 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

S. B. CARPENDER J. K. RICE, JR. EDWARD W. HICKS N. G. RUTGERS 

T°^- L!lo^^^^^^°^ T. ELY SCHENCK JAMES W. JOHNSON RUSSELL E. WATSON 
A. J. JONES R. G. WRIGHT 

R. W. JOHNSON H. H. WEIDA WILLIAM J. McCURDY jamES A. O'CONNELL 

ABRAHAM MARCUS E. E. CONNOLLY HENRY G. PARKER F. M. YORSTON 

New Brunswick's Quota $3,011,500 Subscribed _ $3,633,100 

ilHERE were few indications that Spanish bored in the bottom of ten of our biggest battleships. 

influenza, so prevalent in the city, had He paid a glowing tribute to the U. S. Navy, 

interfered to any great extent with the stating that in spite of the fiendish ingenuity and 

attendance at the Fourth Liberty Loan cunning of the U-boats and the horrors of submarine 

mass meeting of October 6, 1918. warfare, not one troop ship had been sunk. "It takes 

Dr. John A. Ingham gave the invocation, after money to keep our great gray fleet at its heroic 

which the audience joined heartily in singing "The work," he stated, "but we shall keep right on until 

Star-Spangled Banner." the war is won." 

Cosmo Hamilton, lately Lieutenant in the British The speaker warned his listeners not to be too 

Army, and John Grier Hibben, President of Pi-inccton sanguine over recent developments. "What we must 

University, two of the speakers scheduled to appear, win is a complete, decisive victory over the Huns, 

were unable to be present as both were suffering Nothing but utter defeat will ever make Ger- 

with influenza, so Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, many realize that her dream of world dominion 

an officer in the Naval Reserve, made the opening was merely a dream. Honor to our heroic dead, 

address. fidelity to the living and faithfulness to our American 

He said that failure of the American people to ideals render it imperative that nothing less than 

raise the full Liberty Loan quota of $6,000,000,000 this shall be the goal." 

would have exactly the same effect as if a hole were He spoke in eloquent praise of courageous Prance. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



"Attacked in the back with perfidious treachery, she 
was yet able for three and a half weary years to 
keep at bay the largest army ever gathered togtther 
in the history of the world. I shall never forget 
while ambassador to the Netherlands, the morning 
of September 19, 1914, when as a representative from 
a neutral country to a neutral country I had to sit 
with my mouth closed while my heart burned with 
righteous indignation. I shall never forget the 
scenes of Prussian cruelty I witnessed later, rot once, 
but scores and scores of times. 

"The world must set the seal of condemnation on 
the way in which the Germans have waged this war. 
Our wrath and horror must be expressed so unequivo- 
cally that such a conflict must be made forever 
impossible. We do not want the annihilation of 
Gei-many. We do want to put the fear of God into 
the German nation. 

"Thank God, this war-sick world is beginning to 
see a vision of peace, coming slowly perhaps, but 
very, very surely. From the windows of her beautiful 
palace smile the faces of the soldiers and sailors who 
have fought to make her possible. Up the long ave- 
nue leading to that palace I see the flags of the 
victorious allies, the Union Jack, the Tricolor of 
France, the flags of Belgium, of Servia, of Italy, of 
Greece. There are other banners there, borne aloft 
and waving proudly, but the one dearest of all to my 
own heart is the starry banner of our own United 
States. 

"Every lover of peace must buy bonds of the 
Fourth Liberty Loan in order that our beautiful 
standard may have an honored place in that pro- 
cession," he asserted, and concluded his fine address 
by the recitation of the beautiful poem, 

"Oh Fair Flag, Oh Free Flag!" 

CAPTAIN MORIZE SPEAKS 

The second speaker of the afternoon. Captain 
Andre Morize, of the French Military Mission, made 
a very pleasing impression. Tall and dark in his 
handsome unifoi-m, Capt. Morize betrayed few signs 
of the strain and stress of the exciting scenes he has 
witnessed on the French firing-lines. 

"I was on the Belgian border on that day, 
fighting against terrific odds. There were few 
of our men left. We were short of ammunition, 
short of food, we were fighting in water up to our 
waists, weary, disheartened, depressed. That night 
there came to our commander a short order signed by 
General Foch. The order read, 'Men of the northern 
army are to hold. Remember that an army is never 
beaten until its members believe they are beaten. 
The Germans shall not pass.' 

"They did not pass," Capt. Morize said, and the 
audience thundered its admiration and approval. 
"Three times that same general sent the same mes- 
sage to other troops at different places. The fourth 
message came in 1918. You all know it. It was very 

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different in its purport. It said, 'Now we will pass.* 
and the troops of Great Britain, of France, and of 
the United States, with those of the other allies, did 
pass and are passing. 

"Don't let that victorious passage pause. Remem- 
ber that the allied soldiers are no longer men ex- 
hausted from retreat and defeat, no longer men who 
fight without hope of help and succor. France alone 
has now 4,700,000 men on the fighting line, and the 
splendid generosity of America has heartened the 
great armies fully as much as have the heroism and 
self-sacrifice of the American troops. 
THE ARMY AT HOME 

"In every war there are always two armies — the 
men at the front who bear the heavy brunt of battle, 
and the older men, women and children who make up 
the home army behind them. Your purchase of the 
Fourth Liberty Bonds means that you are putting 
inspiration into every soldier who is fighting for 
you and for the freedom of the world. 

"Obedience and sacrifice are the two great watch- 
words in the soldier's heart. Never shall I forget the 
young soldier in my command who turned to me 
after he had been fatally wounded, and asked me 
over and over, 'Did I do ray full duty ? Did I do all I 
could?' And when I bent down and said, 'Yes, my 
lad, you did all you could, and more too,' the most 
wonderful light shone in the eyes of the dying man. 

"Let me say to you here and now, your govern- 
ment commands your help. Are you answering her 
appeal as you should? Are you doing your full 
duty? Are you doing all you can? If so, you will 
know the fullest happiness in the years to come, and 
your heart will thrill at the realization that you had 
a share in winning the victory that shall indeed make 
this world a safe and pleasant place to live in." 

A feature of the afternoon was the enthusiastic 
applause given Dr. Scott, who proved to be an ideal 
presiding officer. In speaking of the new loan he 
declared that the drives reminded him of a rhjTne 
the boys had used in his boyhood days, in counting 
out for a game. 

"One to begin. Two to show, 
Three, to make ready. Four, to go!" 

"All the three other loans were merely prepara- 
tory," Dr. Scott declared. "But this Fourth Loan, 
is to go, and is a final signal to the enemy that 
America is in the grimmest earnest. It is also a 
symbol of the fact that the United States 
aims and ideals, stated in our Constitution one 
hundred and thirty-one years ugo, are rapidly be- 
coming the ideals of every Christian nation." 

THE BIG PARADE 
On October 7, 1918, at 7:30 the crowd that I'ned 
both sides of George and Albany streets several 
columns deep began to grow impatient when, sud- 
denly, strains of music were heard from the directioa 



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of the Albany street bridge. Amid a burst of 
applause the band from the Federal Rendezvous hove 
into view with Bandmaster William Gerhardt lead- 
ing, vigorously swinging his baton. The crowd broke 
loose, yelled, threw hats in the air, and demonstrated 
its enthusiasm. The band, composed of 31 pieces and 
considered one of the finest naval bands extant, 
blared its way down George street, to take its place 
in the line of march with the Red Cross workers at 
George and Hamilton streets. 

The proceedings in connection with the parade 
were finely attuned. Things went off without a hitch, 
thanks to Robert C. Nicholas, who was grand marshal 
of the affair, and his assistant, Andrew Kirkpatnck. 

Special mention should be made of Mr. Nicholas' 
services for the occasion, because, after putting in 
two strenuous days aiding the victims of the Morgan 
disaster, he resolutely stuck to his intention of 
organizing the parade. 

The parade got under way at 8:30 from George 
and Hamilton streets, with the Camp Raritan band 
at the head and the Foreign Legion and wounded 
American soldiers following close in its wake. The 
Foreign Legion had about 15 of its members present, 
all of whom have seen service since the beginning 
of the war. Each of the legionaries was decorated 
with a number of medals won at every battlefiont 
of the war for gallant service. 

The Home Defense band, next to the Foreign 
Legion, was easily the lion of the occasion. 

At Monument Square the Nixon Nitration Co. had 
erected lights that brilliantly illumined the country- 
side for an area of two square miles. They were 
lights that gradually faded into the sky and had all 
the appearances of white clouds. 

The rear of the procession was brought up by 
floats contributed by the leading manufacturing con- 
cerns in the city. 

CAMP RARITAN BOYS GO OVER TOP FOR 
LIBERTY LOAN. 

Answering the call of their country not only by 
exchanging their mufti for khaki, but by emptying 
their purses into the coffers of the Secretary of the 
Treasury as well, the men of Camp Raritan, now 
designated the Ordinance Maintenance and Repair 
Schools, rallied to the Fourth Liberty Loan to the 
extent of $283,000. 

According to Lieut. L. M. Armstrong, Liberty Loan 
officer of the camp, this sum represents a per capita 
contribution at the camp of more than $75. No camp 
in the country can boast of a better record than this. 

The Ordnance Motor instruction School, with its 
large complement of officers and men, swelled the 
camp total by $165,000. One officer, who prefers to 
have his name unknown, made a single subscription 
of $100,000. There were several other contributions 
in the five figures. The Raritan assembling plant 
companies added $21,000 to the loan. 



$10,000 RAISED BY ONE COMPANY 

First honors in what was formerly the Raritan 
Ordnance Training Camp were won by the men of the 
Third Ordnance Supply Company, conMnanded by 
Lieut. Hugh J. Falvey. This company alone raised 
approximately $10,000. No pressure whatever was 
brought to bear on any of the men to purchase bunds. 
Those with allotments were informed early in the 
campaign that they would not be expected to sliare 
in the loan. Two rallies were held by the Third 
Supply organization in their mess hall. Lieut. Falvey 
presided at the first meeting and the second was 
promoted by the non-commissioned officers of the 
company. 

Ordnance Sergeant Bielman, of the R. O. T. C. 
headquarters, who conducted the Liberty Loan desk 
in the Y. M. C. A., turned in nearly $10,000 in sub- 
scriptions, being assisted by contributions from the 
band and the Eighth Supply Company. 

Sergeant Bielman worked hard on behalf of the 
loan and but for the quarantine which forbade more 
than 75 men gathering in the Y. M. C. A. hall at 
one time, would likely have doubled his total. 

Officers of the R. O. T. C. took $6,000 of the issue 
while men of the arsenal headquarters totalled $9,150. 

The Sixth Supply Company, which stood second in 
the race with the Falveyites, raised $5,300. 

The Medical Department hit the $4,600 mark. 
Other reports were: First Guard, $5,000; Fourth 
Guard, $550; Sixth Guard, $3,250; Eighth Guard, 
$700; First Supply $2,500; Second Supply, $1,000; 
Ninth Supply, $3,750; Seventh Supply, $3,200. 

The Casual Battalion composed of youths just out 
of colleges, where they underwent courses of training 
fitting them for ordnance work, though in camp but 
a few days, raised $3,500. 

The Wright-Martin plant both in this city and in 
Long Island did splendidly in subscribing tj the 
Liberty Loan. The figures for the local plant reached 
$853,000 and Long Island City $450,000. The quota 
for both the plants was the same, $500,000. 
****** 

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN— GENERAL REPORT 
Subscriptions secured by Canvassers in 
both the City and Country Districts, 
including the Women's Committee 

and the Boy Scouts $1,020.4.'!0.00 

Corporation Subscriptions 860,700.00 

Corporation Employes' Subscriptions.-.. 1,441,950.00 
Bonds subscribed for by the Banks 310,000.00 

Total subscriptions received „ $3,633,100.00 

THE ABOVE AMOUNTS WERE APPOR- 
TIONED AS FOLLOWS: 
HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS— 
First Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist. Total 
$24,750.00 $27,800.00 $41,600.00 | 94,150.00 

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Second Ward: 

Ist Dist. 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

46,400.00 34,350.00 31,850.00...„ 112,600.00 

Third Ward: 

1st Dist 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

14,350.00 23,850.00 17.000.00 55,200.00 

Fourth Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

64,700.00 36,650.00 35,150.00 30,750.00 167,250.00 
Fifth Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist Total 

36,600.00 43,400.00 36,000.00 „... 116,000.00 

Sixth Ward: 

1st Dist 2nd Dist 3d Dist. 4th Dist Total 

73,500.00 27,450.00 43,950.00 144,900.00 

Highland Park: 690,100.00 

1st Dist 2nd Dist. 3d Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

64,650.00 56,850.00 22,750.00 144,250.00 

$834,350.00 
COUNTY DISTRICTS— 

East MUlstone $52,200.00 

Franklin Park. 31,650.00 

Middlebush - 12,600.00 

North Brunswick. 12,150.00 

Piscataway 7,900.00 

South Brunswick...- 13,850.00 

Stelton 11,850.00 

142,200.00 

Women's Conunittee...- 125,400.00 

Boy Scouts _ 91,600.00 

Bank Subscriptions 310,000.00 

Corporation Subscriptions 860,700.00 

Sundry Subscriptions taken through the 

Banks and Corporations 1,268,850.00 

Total Subscriptions received. $3,633,100.00 

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN REPORT ON 
CORPORATIONS 

Corporation Employes' 
Subscriptions. Subscriptions. 

Acme Underwear Co $ 2,000.00 $ 2,050.00 

Arctic Ice Co 200.00 350.00 

Armour & Co 1,500.00 1,950.00 

Barkelew & Co., J. M 1,000.00 

Bayuk Bros 5,000.00 

Black & Co. Wm 1,050.00 

Brunswick Refrigerating Co 50,000.00 13,750.00 

Buttler-Howell Co 1,000.00 8,700.00 

Consolidated Fruit Jar Co. 28,000.00 9,600.00 

Crawford Mfg. Co 2,000.00 

Cronk Mfg. Co 1,850.00 

Empire Chemical Co 5,000.00 2,350.00 

Forty-Four Cigar Co _... 2,000.00 1,300.00 

Goetze Gasket & P'ck'ng Co 12,000.00 750.00 

Granton Chemical Co 5,000.00 2,150.00 

Highland Park Building Co. 2,000.00 5,200.00 

Howe Rubber Co 25,000.00 15,800.00 

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India Rubber Co (See U. S. Rubber Co.) 17,000.00 



5,000.00 



1,000.00 



25,000.00 
6,000.00 



1,000.00 



1,000.00 



Ives & Co., Loyal T 7,500.00 

Janeway Button Co „... 10,000.00 

Janeway & Carpender 

Johnson & Johnson 250,000.00 

Long - Landreth - Schneider 

Co 

Michelin Tire Co _... 100,000.00 

Metropolitan Life Ins. Co 6,000.00 

Emp. subs, in 

Milltown Mfg. Co 4,000.00 Milltown 

Middlesex Box Mfg. Co 10,000.00 through J.&J. 

Middlesex Transportation 

Co 1,000.00 through J.&J. 

National Musical String Co. 
New Brunswick Chemical 

Co _ 

New Brunswick Cigar Co 

New Brunswick Fire Ins. 

Co 

New Brunswick Iron Works 
New Brunswick Iron and 

Metal Co 

New Brunswick Needle 

Works 

New Brunswick Porcelain 

Co 

Neverslip Works (Mfrs. Iron 

and Steel Co.) 25,000.00 

New Jersey Tobacco Co 10,000.00 

Pen Carbon Manifold Co.. ..Individual Subs 

Pennsylvania Railroad Co 

Prospect Boiler Co 500.00 

Postal Telegraph Co...._ 5,000.00 

Potter Co., F. J Individual Subs. 

Public Sei-vice Corp _ _ 

Raritan River R. R 5,000.00 

Reckitts, Ltd 2,500.00 

Rolfe Bldg. & Materials Co. 1,500.00 

Ross & Sons, Miles 10,000.00 

Rutgers College, Trustees 10,000.00 

Squibb & Sons, E. R 25,000.00 

Standard Oil Co 10,000.00 

Strong Hardware Co 2,000.00 

Tepper Bros 2,000.00 

Turner White Metal Co 2.000.00 

Unexcelled Mfg. Co 2,000.00 

United Cigars Co 500.00 

United States Rubber Co... 100,000.00 

United States Nickel Co 16,000.00 

Utility Construction Co 5,000.00 

Waldron Co., John. 10,000.00 

Webb Wire Works 15,000.00 

Woolworth, F. W 1,000.00 

Wright - Martin Aircraft 

Corp. 



8,700.00 

1,150.00 

10,000.00 

287,700.00 

700.00 
60,000.00 



2,400.00 



1,700.00 
4,000.00 



2,500.00 

1,250.00 

800.00 

3,000.00 

20,400.00 

1,600.00 

90,100.00 

750.00 

3,250.00 
2,000.00 

1,650.00 
1,650.00 



4,000.00 



800.00 
1,250.00 



20,100.00 
5,000.00 



9,000.00 
3,250.00 



800.000.00 



Totals - $860,700.00 $1,441,950.00 



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S. B. CARPENDER 
A. J. JONES 
J. J. MORRISON 
PETER F. DALY 
ROBERT E. ROSS 




Chairman. CHAS. A .McCORMICK 

Vice Chairman. J. W. JOHNSON 

Vice Chairman. HENRY G. PARKER 

Vice Chairman. W. J. McCURDY 

Vice Chairman. J. K. RICE, Jr. 

Secretary-Treasurer F. M. YORSTON 

Asst. Secretary G. P. MONTRASTELLO 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

r. E. SCHENCK EDWARD W. HICKS 

L. C. STEVENS R. W. JOHNSON 

RUSSELL E. WATSON Mrs. J. A. O'CONNELL 

E. E. CONNOLLY N. G. RUTGERS 



S. SCHLEIMER 
JESSE STRAUSS 
HARRY WEIDA 
R. G. WRIGHT 



EDW. GARRETSON 
East Millstone 

E. T. SMITH 
Middlebush 



DISTRICT CHAIRMEN 
OSCAR MARTIN ALFRED YORSTON 

Piscatawaytown North Brunswick 

MATTHEW SUYDAM L. R. VAN DERVEER 
Franklin Park South Brunswick 

JEREMIAH LETSON, Stelton 



CAMPAIGN, MAY, 1919 

New Brunswick's quota $2,218,200 

Subscribed 2,660,700 

Headquarters: Service Club Rooms, Second Re- 
formed Church 



Campaign expenses paid for from the balance in 
the treasury of the Fourth Liberty Loan Committee 
and funds received from the Federal Reserve Bank 
of New York. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Announcement that the quota for the Victory Loan 
would be $2,218,200 didn't cause any nervous excite- 
ment at the meeting held April 14, 1919. 

"We'll finish the job," seemed to be the thought 
of that gathering of substantial citizens that met to 
put the Victory Loan over the top. 

And determinedly they tackled the job and spoke 
their mind freely about the critics and croakers and 
slackers. 

Chairman Charles A. McCormick presided at the 
meeting and briefly outlined the terms of the Loan, 
as announced by Secretary Glass. The securities 
would be called notes, instead of bonds, this time. As 
Henry G. Parker, president of the National Bank of 
New Jersey, later explained, there is no difference 
between a note and a bond as far as the security is 
concerned. Any obligation of the government is a 
gilt-edged security. 

AFTER THE HIDDEN CASH 

Chairman McCormick said that his instructions 
were to secure a wide distribution for this loan. 
There is more cash hidden in trunks and stockings 
in New Bi-unswick today than ever in the history of 
the city, he declared, particularly among the foreign 
people. These people must be shown the danger of 
thus hiding their money and persuaded to buy Vic- 
tory notes. 

"We have got to use some different medicine in 
this campaign. When I say medicine, I mean argu- 
ments. A patriotic appeal will touch any red-blooded 
American, but when you talk investment to many 
people you go right over their heads. 

WHAT'S YOUR FULL SHARE 

"In this campaign we are going to find people who 
have not, will not, but who should buy bonds. We 
are going to find people here who will tell you that 
they have done their full share and who can do no 
more. 

"When we come across somebody like that I want 
to send a couple of our boys in khaki to interview 
him. If that doesn't move him I want to send a 
couple of those boys now over at the Colonia Hos- 
pital to tell him what they have done for their coun- 
try. Then I want him to consider if he has done his 
full share. 

"I have been assured of the full support of the 
boys who have returned from service and of the boys 
at Colonia. 

"Over seventy thousand of our boys perished, 

either in actual warfare or of disease. They are the 

only Americans who have paid the full measure and 

have done their full share, by giving their all." 

MUST PAY THE BILL 

James W. Johnson, who was chairman of the Third 
and Fourth Liberty loans, said that the Fifth Vic- 
tory Loan reminded him of the man who had gone 

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to a tailor, got a suit of clothes, worn them out and 
was then confronted with the bill. There was only 
one thing for him to do — pay the bill. 

"We have won the war and now we have got to 
pay the bill. That is the cold fact. No doubt you 
will hear a great many excuses from people who do 
not want to invest. They will tell you that so much 
money was wasted. Hindsight always is better than 
foresight. In the great rush some money may have 
been spent uselessly. But that doesn't make any 
difference — we have got to pay it." 

He said that he had no doubt but that the people of 
New Brunswick would oversubscribe their quota 
again. 

Henry G. Parker, chairman of the First and Sec- 
ond loans, said that the loan offered the best invest- 
ment in the world, that the government was not 
asking for charity, but offering a handsome profit to 
the investors. 

Investment in the Victory Loan, he said, was not 
comparable to the acts of men who had gone into 
the service and who have suffered the loss of limbs 
or the pain of wounds. 

When the canvassers find a person who should in- 
vest, but who is lukewarm, they should call in one of 
the men who are proud of the wounds they bear and 
of the sacrifices they have made for their country. 
There are still a lot of people in New Brunswick who 
have bought no bonds, he declared. 

JUDGE DALY CAMPAIGN MANAGER 

Chairman McCormick announced that he had 
named Judge Peter F. Daly as campaign manager. 
In accepting the office Judge Daly sentenced all 
knockers to banishment. The trouble with some peo- 
ple, he said, is that they cannot take a world vision 
of things. They delight in picking a flaw here and 
a flaw there, but do not see the whole scene in all its 
grandeur. 

The greatest accomplishment in all of the world's 
history, he declared, was the work of the American 
soldiers in the great war. It was worth all it cost 
and not a penny spent upon it was wasted. 

If the critics could see what he had seen at Co- 
lonia they would better appreciate the sacrifices that 
have been made to win the great victory. He said 
that while holding naturalization court there he had 
called upon men to stand to take the oath, and they 
could not stand. He had asked men to raise their 
right hand, and they had no right hand to raise. 

His speech was an inspirinij appeal to mop up, 
finish the job, to feel the thrill of duty. 
CAVALRYMEN PARADE 

The appearance of the famous Eleventh Cavalry 
Squadron, United States Regulars, in a parade on 
the morning of April 28, 1919, added further im- 
petus to the Victory Loan, which had gotten off to a 
flying start. The soldiers arrived at the city line 
on Livingston avenue shortly after 10 o'clock and 



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were met by members of the general Victory Loan 
committee in automobiles. 

As tlie veterans passed through the city they were 
greeted by hundreds of school children, who cheered 
them on their way. George street was literally 
clogged with children and others. 

The soldiers went to Buccleuch Park, where they 
pitched camp and had mess. Shortly after noon, the 
Journey was started again. Members of the New 
Brunswick Chapter of the Red Cross were on hand 
«nd provided the cavalrymen with a substantial 
luncheon. 

THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN TAKE THE TOWN 
BY STORM 

It was some pee-rade! 

If half of the adults of the town had as much pep 
in them as the children of the various schools of the 
city exhibited in their Victory Loan parade on Fri- 
day afternoon, May 2, 1919, New Brunswick would 
be THE city of the United States. 

Such enthusiasm was refreshing to behold. Sev- 
eral thousand children and their teachers partici- 
pated in the parade, and the march was enlivened 
by Knoll's Band, of this city; the State Home Band, 
of Jamesburg; the High School and St. Peter's School 
Drum Corps. 

There was not a hitch to mar the occasion. The 
various schools slipped into their designated places 
with rare smoothness and the line of march was un- 
broken. The children showed the careful drilling 
of the teachers and marched with great precision. 

There was no compulsion regarding the style of 
dressing, and the majority of the children were at- 
tired in school clothes. Nearly every one carried a 
flag, poster or banner, and the effect was spectac- 
ular. 

Every street that the parade passed through was 
lined solid with people, and being such a wonderful 
spring day every mother deemed it necessary to 
take the babies out for an airing, and George street 
and Livingston avenue resembled a baby parade. 
Gocarts were parked all along the streets. 

Parents waved to the marching children, and the 
kiddies responded vociferously. Each school carried 
a banner at the head of its lines to designate just 
what school was parading. There were no end of 
Victory Loan posters carried, besides the smaller 



flags and service flags. Large American flags were 
borne by a dozen girls. 

The Victory Loan insignia was exceedingly popu- 
lar, and many of the marchers wore them as arm 
bands, fair marchers wore them on the order of 
Greek hair bands and two winsome maidens had 
whole frocks made of the long Victory Loan strips, 
also caps to match. 

There were plenty of Red Cross nurses, and one of 
the special hits of the parade was a Salvation Army 
lassie in full costume bearing a tray of real dough- 
nuts. 

RED CROSS NURSES 

There were plenty of Red Cross nurses and Boy 
Scouts. Nor were the farmerettes and farmers miss- 
ing, they being attired in real rural fashion and car- 
rying their implements with them. Sunbonnet Sues 
were plentiful and looked very bewitching in their 
white frocks, with pink, blue and yellow sunbonnets. 

Some of the girl marchers were attired in khakf 
and looked very nifty. The Prep School boys, at- 
tired in their military uniforms and carrying guns, 
made an impressive appearance. The music of the 
bands was most inspiring and a real stimulus to the 
marchers. 

The Highland Park school was headed by a real 
Uncle Sam, who proudly carried a Victory poster and 
was roundly cheered as he went along. 

Arriving at the field the children were escorted to 
the various bleachers and sat like images until after 
the "Star Spangled Banner" was sung. Then the 
alluring green patches of the field proved too much 
for them, and they slid down those bleachers at a 
speed almost unbelievable, and had the time of their 
young lives. It was turned into a real May Day 
picnic. 

Lawyer Samuel Schleimer was spokesman for the 
exercises, and almost lost his voice trying to make 
himself heard. He introduced the speakers, who 
were Dr. Charles T. Bayliss, of Brooklyn, and Harold 
J. Fuller, who recently returned from overseas. 

Mayor Morrison, Dr. Austin Scott and Prof. Ira T. 
Chapman delivered short addresses. 

George W. Wilmot, director of music in the public 
schools, led the singing. 



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Subscriptions secured by Canvassers in 
both the City and Country Districts, 
including the Women's Committee and 

the Boy Scouts ? 847,400.00 

Corporation subscriptions 684,250.00 

Corporation employes' subscriptions 440,850.00 

Subscribed through, and by, Banks 627,450.00 

Railroad credits 60,750.00 

Total subscriptions received $2,660,700.00 

The above amounts have been apportioned as 
follows: 

HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CANVASS 

First Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

?12,550.00 $ 8,000.00 $73,100.00 $ $ 93,650.00 

Second Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

18,200.00 18,550.00 4,600.00 41,350.00 

Third Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

5,950.00 19.200.00 13,950.00 - 39,100.00 

Fourth Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

34,700.00 28,200.00 5,500.00 4,300.00 

72,700.00 
Fifth Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

16,800.00 14,400.00 10,550.00 41,750.00 



Sixth Ward: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

83,850.00 7,500.00 33,100.00 124,450.00 

Highland Park: 

1st Dist. 2nd Dist. 3rd Dist. 4th Dist. Total 

73,050.00 42,000.00 5,250.00 

120,300.00 

Total $533,300.00 

COUNTRY DISTRICTS 

East Millstone $14,700.00 

Franklin Park 20,700.00 

Middlebush 2,500.00 

North Brunswick 8,650.00 

Piscatawaytown 28,150.00 

South Brunswick 5,100.00 

Stelton _ 4,250.00 

Total — .$ 84,050.00 

OTHER SUBSCRIPTIONS 

Banks -...$ 627,450.00 

Women's Committee 189,900.00 

Boy Scouts 40,150.00 

Railroad credits _ _ 60,750.00 

Corporations - 684,250.00 

Corporation employes 440,850.00 

Total subscriptions received. $2,660,700.00 



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IN THE WORLD WAR 



CAMPAIGN, JANUARY 14-28, 1918 

New Brunswick quota _ $15,000.00 

Subscription 18,983.63 

HEADQUARTERS: K. OF C. BUILDING, BAYARD STREET 



At a meeting held in the council room of New 
Brunswick Council, K. of C, on Friday evening, 
January 11, 1918, there were brought together men 
from many walks of life, representing all creeds and 
faiths, and all interested in raising New Bruns- 
wick's quota of $15,000 towards the national K. of 
C. war work fund of $12,000,000. 

Judge Peter F. Daly, who was in charge of the 
campaign, presided at the deliberations, following a 
brief introduction of James T. Tomney, grand knight 
of New Brunswick Council. Judge Daly spoke of 
the splendid feeling of co-operation and unity now 
existing between the men of various faiths. 

In presenting Herbert P. Lansdale, chief secre- 
tary of the Young Men's Christian Association at 
Camp Dix, Judge Daly spoke of the new Y. M. C. A. 
building on Livingston avenue, and said: 

"There is not a Roman Catholic of the City of 
New Bnmswick worthy of the name who was solic- 
ited who did not go to his limit in shov/ing, in a 
manifest and substantial way, his interest in an in- 
stitution which means so much for making militant 
Christianity." 

MORALS DEPEND ON RELIGION 

Mr. Lansdale's address was forcible and to the 
point. He said: 

"Morals are dependent upon religion, upon re- 
ligious conviction, and morale is dependent upon re- 
ligious conviction. I heard General Scott last Sun- 
day morning, after our Sunday morning service, say 
to several of us. This is going to mean morale in the 
army. Go ahead with this kind of work whenever 
you want to. 

"And I want to say this to you men, men of my 
own faith, that we could not do the work that we 
are doing in those camps, not for a minute, if it had 
not been for the K. of C. help, and as they helped 
US, we ought to help them, and I do not care what 
a man is, and what his faith is, we ought to get 
back to this project during this next week, or few 
weeks, whatever it is, as long as you are going to 
have your campaign, and help these men to raise 
their money. And I do not know where you can 
make a better investment than to put it in the 
Knights of Columbus and the work they are doing 
in these camps. And I can say from first hand 
knowledge, from having seen for the last five months 
what has been done in Camp Dix. 



"Don't let us be niggardly about it, either. I 
dont believe you are going to be. I believe you are 
going to have the same experience we had when 
we went out for our thirty-five million, and the 
people gave us fifty million. I believe you are go- 
ing to be surprised at how willingly the people are 
going to contribute towards your cause, if you can 
just get it to them, if you can organize properly, 
perfect your organization and go out and see that 
every man, woman and child is covered- I believe 
you will have a response such as you have not 
dreamed of. I am sure of that, if you can get it 
properly presented to them. May God help you in 
doing this." 

REV. JOHN F. WALSH 

An inspiring address was that of Rev. John F. 
Walsh, the Catholic post champlain at Camp Dix. In 
part, he said: 

"I am in camp as a Chaplain and a friend of all 
boys who may need a friend, and I might say it with 
pardonable pride, I may repeat the words of Judge 
Daly that I feel that I have endeared myself to boys 
of all classes and all denominations, and I am glad to 
state that of my most intimate friends, I number a 
great many of faiths other than my own. 

"The Knights of Columbus are working in the 
closest possible harmony in conjunction with the Y. 
M. C. A.; the Y. M. C. A. is our great big brother in 
this work. They have been in the field for years and 
years and are intimately acquainted with it. 

"Now, I don't know of anything that would in- 
terest you more tonight than to know just what the 
Knights of Columbus are doing in camp. Our work 
is vei-y similar to that of the Y. M. C. A. We plan 
a social, a recreational, and athletic and religious 
program. We try to give amusements, to give edu- 
cation, relaxation and religion to soldiers. We are 
creating that refining influence, and that healthful 
atmosphere that must surround a soldier boy to keep 
him from temptation, to keep him from places where 
he might degrade his uniform. 

"You will remember when the Knights of Colum- 
bus started out in this work they appealed only to 
their own members for funds to sustain them in their 
great work, and later on, as the needs broadened out, 
so did the demand for finance, and it was found 
necessary to call upon Catholics in general, and then 
on all denominations. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



"Everybody is welcome at our camp buildings and 
an instance of the co-operation is to be found in this, 
that our three buildings on next Friday evening, or 
Saturday, will be turned over to representatives of 
the Hebrew Welfare Workers, and that they will 
coi.duct their services in our buildings. 

MAJOR RICHARD P. DONNELLY 

A guest of honor was Major Richard Donnelly, of 
the United States Army, stationed at Camp Dix as 
Assistant Division Adjutant. He said: 

"I can assure you, gentlemen, as a soldier, and as 
one who himself is gaining the benefits of the 
agencies that exist in Camp Dix for the spiritual 
and the moral elevation of the soldiers stationed 
there, that no better instniments could possibly be 
used than the Knights of Columbus and the Y. M. 
C. A." 

John J. Hickey, of Bayonne, gave one of his 
characteristic addresses and received a tremendous 
ovation. 

Mayor Edward F. Farrington followed next with 
a spirited message, pledging his personal service in 
the campaign and expressing a belief that the city's 
quota would be more than subscribed. He was fol- 
lowed by Dr. John A. In<ji)am, who brought cordial 
greetings to the assemblage. 

In addition brief addresses were made by Mayor 
R. E. Watson, of Highland Park; Rev. Paul Hayne, 
Judge Freeman Woodbridge, Robert E. Ross, James 
K. Rice, Alfred S. March, Senator W. Edwin Flor- 
ance, Frederick Weigel, Sydney B. Carpender, Daniel 
J. Wray, William R. Reed, John H. Conger and Post- 
master P. H. Hendricks. 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

General, Peter F. Daly; Vice Generals, Dr. Austi« 
Scott, Freeman Woodbridge, Robert E. Ross; Treas- 
urer, George F. McCormick; Secretary, Elmer K 
Connolly; Sydney B. Carpender, Robert Carson, John 
H. Conger, John L. Daly, Dr. William H. S. Dem- 
arest. Rev. James F. Devine, Dr. Frank M. Donohue, 
Edward F. Farrington, W. Edwin Florance, Alexan- 
der Gold- 

Rev. Paul Hayne, Peter H. S- Hendricks, Thomas 
H. Hagerty, William F. Harkins, Edward J. Hough- 
ton, Rev. Dr. John A. Ingham, James W. Johnson, 
Robert W. Johnson, Samuel M. Lipscomb, Alfred S. 
March, J. Hauvette Michelin, James H. Meagher, 
William H. Mansfield, James F. Mitchell, Charles A. 
McCormick, William J. McCurdy, W. Ambrose New, 
Monsignor John A. O'Grady, John J. O'Brien, James 
A. O'Connell, Henry G- Parker. 

Rev. Francis J. Quinn, Howard C. Rule, William 
R. Reed, Rev. Dr. Ludwig Roeder, James K. Rice, 
Rev. Lineus E. Schwarze, William Schlessinger, Dr- 
A. L. Smith, Jesse Strauss, James T. Tomney, Fred- 
erick Weigel, Russell E. Watson, Patrick M. Wekh. 
Daniel J. Wray, Peter J. Young. 

The appeal of the K. of C. was not in vain. The 
city was not satisfied with raising $15,000 but sub- 
scribed $3,983.63 over its alloted quota, or a total of 
$18,983.63. 

During the entire period of the war the club hous« 
of the K. of C on Bayard street, was open to th« 
men in uniform who made good use of its bowling 
alleys, recreation rooms and baths. 

Two members of the Council served as K. of C. 
.secretaries, Alfred Brown with the Army in France, 
and Charles Blundel at Camps Raritan and Merrit 




"TOP SERGE" SKILL WAKER CAN'T "WAK^I" 
BUGLER WRIGHT 



Ninety-two 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



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Saturday, November 6, 1918, was a gala day and 
all George street showed signs of the drive to put 
thp United War Work Drive over the top. Nobody 
could turn out without some pretty young girl con- 
fronting him or her and being asked to contribute to 
the worthy cause. The police, firemen and letter- 
carriers also confronted every one they met with the 
appeal to give. 

The police carried their boxes on their rounds 
while the letter-carriers collected on the routes. The 
firemen were everywhere but particularly near their 
respective fire houses. 

The appeal was taken to every theater in town. 
The Home Defense and Wright-Martin bands were 
on hand and played at George and Albany streets 
where the biggest doings were and at every street 
corner on George street while the girls passed 
through the crowd and added more capital to the ever 
growing fund. 

During the day it took ten people continuously 
stringing tags to supply the demand and twenty-five 
people were necessary to take care of the money. 

The employees of the India Rubber Company made 
a hit with their bell on their truck. Harry Weida, 
general manager of the plant, gave them permission 
to unearth a bell which was in the belfrey of the 
factory. This they placed on their truck and with 
other trimmings went through town collecting 
money. On a trip on upper Remsen avenue, where 
a great many of the people were foreigners, .$33.16 
was realized. 

The Boy Scouts were again on deck with their ever 
ready service. They did excellent work in not only 
collecting the money but helping to do other duties. 

At George and Albany streets a big show was held 
under the direction of George Gathers. Lieutenant 
Falvey, of Camp Raritan, brought over some excel- 
elnt talent. Private Fields, who was a former mem- 
ber of the famous Brown Brothers Saxaphone Sex- 
tet, played several selections. Corporal Fitzpatrick, 
mighty popular around New Bnansvvick for his piano- 
logues, also rendered several selections. A ring, 
which was made from the aluminum from a German 
airplane, brought twelve dollars. The ring also had 
an imitation French War cross on it. 

Private Aronson, who was in the fight at Chateau- 
Thierry, spoke at the Postoffice comer and at the 
Opera House. 

The chairman of the event was Mrs. James 
O'Connell. 

Money obtained by the various organizations dur- 
ing the day was divided as follows: 

Letter carriers, $206; police $247; Post Office cor- 



ner, $349; firemen $769; other sources, $1,400. 

The grand total for the various divisions and for 
the team in each division, which reached the highest 
total follows: 

Division A, Major Daly, $5,226. Captain Gold's 
team, $1,921; Division B, Major Louis Wolf son, 
$7,457, Captain Wheeler's team; Division C. Major 
Hagerty, $8,281, Captain Parker; Division D, Major 
Merchant, $10,235, Captain Merritfs team. 

The grand totals are: 

DIVISION A 
No. Margaret Daly, Major 

1— Captain J. Feinsod $ 1,060 

2— Captain A. Gold 1,989 

5 — Captain J. A. Morrison 513 

4— Captain N. H. Smith 442 

5— Captain J. D. Wilmot 917 

DIVISION B. 
Louis Wolfson, Major 

6— Captain W. H- Everson 1,187 

7— Captain W. H. Green 1,143 

?— Captain G. H. Wheeler 3,539 

9— Capiaip W. H. Mansfield 1,010 

10— Captain G- McLaughlin 498 

DIVISION C. 
Mrs. W. Frank Parker, Major 

11— Captain W. F. Parker 4,295 

12— Captain A. New 1,634 

13— Captain R. P. Wilson 814 

14_Captain J. Porkony 1,018 

15 — Captain A. Jelin 618 

DIVISION D. 
Alexander Merchant, Major 

16— Captain S. Slonim 1,512 

17— Captain J. H. Conger 1,726 

18— Captain S- Whitlock 1,965 

19— Captain F. B. Merritt 3,946 

20— Captain W. F. Harkins ..._ 972 

Corporation committee _ 19,335 

Executive committee - 7,500 

Industrial workers _ 33,944 

Rutgers College 6,370 

Women's College - 510 

Victory Boys and Girls 6,595 

Total includes $25 from Lady Foresters of America 
and $2,500 from an anonymous contributor. 

The total amount collected was $114,169.29. Sidney 
B. Carpender was chairman of this drive, Howard V. 
Buttler treasurer and Frances M. Yorston, secretary. 

This was the real big drive of the war and great 
credit should be given to the chairman for her un- 
tiring service. 

Ninety-three 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



W^r Ssimngi, Stamp Diri^© 



COMMITTEES IN CHARGE 



General Committee — George F. McCormick, chair- 
man; John J. Monigan, secretary; Fred M. Joiner, 
James A. McGarry, Prof. Frank Spring, Prof. Chas. 
Stone, John A. Donahue, William Van Nuis, H. Ray- 
mond Groves, Prof. John H, Logan, Dr. Lawrence 
Mundy, Mrs. James A. O'Connell, Mrs. William 
Macom, Miss Margaret Daly, Miss Catherine Weigel 
and Miss Sara Whitlock. 

Committee on Fraternal Organizations — William 
H. Everson, George Gathers, R. T. Holman, Robert 
Carson, John V. Hubbard, Fred W. Conger, Harry 
Austin, Eugene Renart and Thomas Cleary. 

Committee on Industrial Organizations — Miss A. 
Gregson and Miss Gunloch. 



New Brunswick Public Schools — Prof. Ira T. Chap- 
man, chairman; vice chainnan, Prof. C. T. Stone, 
Margaret C. Wall, Grace March, Sarah Whitlock, 
Cecelia Boudinot, Amanda Voorhees, Eleanor Lett, 
Angie Wray. 

Highland Park Schools — Prof. Frank Spring. 

Rutgers Preparatory Schools — Prof. Willaim P. 
Kelly. 

St- Peters School — Sister Mary Agnes. 

St. John's Catholic School — Sister Elizabeth. 

Sacred Heart School — Sister Augustin. 

St. Ladislaus School — Albert Pogany. 

Rice Institute — Mrs. Ella M. Rice. 



"Have you ever been to hell, and back again?" 
This was the question put point blank to 200 women 
in the Elks' Lodge room on the evening of June 18, 
1918, that brought them suddenly to attention. The 
occasion was the meeting of the captains and sollic- 
itors of the War Savings Stamps campaign, and 
the words came from the lips of Sergeant-Major 
De Witt, who has only recently returned from the 
battle fronts of Europe. Continuing, Sergeant De- 
Witt said: "Of course, you have not. But I have. 
Do you know, I would rather talk to men than to 
you women, then I could talk as I feel. To talk about 
this war properly I have to use early English. I 
always begin by paying my respects to the Kaiser, 
but not in these words." 

Sergeant-Major DeWitt thrilled his hearers with 
tales of personal experiences on the fighting lines 
"over there." In part, he said: 

"They thought they had me over there. I was 
gassed but they did not get me. As soon as I am 
fully recovered I will be right back there. For seven 
weeks I lay in a military hospital, (the American 
Red Cross Hospital, near Paris). One day they 
brought a Frenchman in on a stretcher and put him 
in the cot next to me. When he got a little better 
and was able to talk a little I asked him how he 
got wounded. It seems that he and an advanced 
patrol entered a little town in France after the exit 
of the Germans, to see if there were any refugees or 
any work to be done. 

"In going down one street they passed a Catholic 
Church, and a party of twenty entered, leaving this 
one Frenchman, a sergeant, outside to watch. When 

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they entered they found the image of the Christ 
removed by the Germans from the altar, and stand- 
ing over in the comer was the image with a Germaa 
helmet on the thorn crovsmed head, and a pipe in the 
mouth. 

"The figure of the crucified Christ had been re- 
moved from the cross and in its place the Germans 
had crucified a cat, fastening it to the cross with 
wire. One of the Frenchmen stepped up to the altar 
and taking out his priers, cut the wire that held the 
cat prisoner. Immediately there was a great ex- 
plosion. That church was wiped off the map. The 
altar had been mined. The sergeant was the only 
survivor." 

"Yankee ingenuity is going to win this war. Our 
boys at the front act as if they were going to a 
circus instead of to war. If it was not for the humor 
the boys would go crazy. The French think they 
are crazy, but they're putting it over and getting 
away with it. It has never been done in war before. 

"You've got to get rid of the pro-Germans in this 
country. If you don't, when the boys come home 
they'll clean house for you, and they won't be gentle 
about it. Just keep the guns of the army and navy 
loaded to the muzzle with Liberty Loan Bonds and 
War Savings Stamps, and we will blow Germany off 
the earth. 

"Out there is the land of mud and blood, rotting 
men and horses. The boys are looking to you with 
pleading eyes, saying 'Stand by us.' If our man 
power gives out, we'll use woman power, and then 
there'll be hell to pay. Stand by us and we'll send 
the Kaiser and his whole Potsdam crowd down into 
the depths of hell." 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



Final preparations for the drive to obtain New 
Brunswick's quota of pledges in the two billion dol- 
lar loan launched by the Government were made at 
an enthusiastic meeting of the captains, solicitors and 
others interested in the movement at Elks' Hall. 

Conforming with the suggestions of the State 
Committee, the campaign was vigorously prosecuted. 
It was conducted along the lines of a house-to-house 
canvass by the women, while the mills and factories 
were taken care of by a special corps of workers 
under the charge of the general committee. 

The campaign was for pledges only. No person 
was asked for any cash subscription at the time the 
«clicitor called but asked only to sign a card, pledg- 
ing to the Government whatever amount that they 
felt they could invest in thrift stamps or war stamps, 
during the balance of the year. 



On June 8 the weather man smiled on Thrift 
Stamps and sent a perfect day to aid the worthy 
cause and the young women of the town, who had 
oifered their services to aid in the sale of the stamps 
were able to don their white frocks. 

The little bungalow at the comer of George and 
Albany streets, in the post office yard, was a mag- 
net for many. Here the Lipman twins, Daniel and 
Edward Lipman, as Uncle Sams, Miss Helen Ross as 
Columbia and Betty Ross as Betsy Ross, captured 
pedestraians right and left. The quartet went 
through some amusing stunts to the delight of the 
patrons. 

Almost every store on George street had its Thrift 
Stamp booth in front of its door, with pretty girls in 
attendance. 



New Brunswick, N. J., 
July 29, 1919. 
Mr. John P. Wall, 

George Street, City. 
Sir: 

As per your request I herewith submit a report of 
the sale of War Saving Stamps and Thrift Stamps 
at this office from December 1, 1917, when stamps 
were first put on sale, until June 30, 1919. 







Thrift War Savings 




Month 




Stamp 


Stamp 


Total 


Dec. 


1917 


14,468 


829 


$ 7,032.48 


Jan. 


1918 


7,089 


1,466 


7,812.17 


Feb. 


1918 


9,089 


1,146 


7,195.23 


Mar. 


1918 


17,981 


1,898 


12.352.97 


Apr. 


1918 


35,059 


2,528 


19,255.95 


May 


1918 


35,839 


3,768 


24,634.63 


June 


1918 


74,863 


5,649 


42,272.08 


July 


1918 


39,783 


5,679 


33,683.97 


Aug. 


1918 


38,906 


3,689 


25,183.16 


Sept. 


1918 


62,016 


6,113 


41,178.60 


Oct. 


1918 


30,585 


4,530 


26,717.55 


Nov. 


1918 


21,983 


3,945 


22,143.65 


Dec 


1918 


17,820 


5,398 


27,288.54 


Jan. 


1919 


6,589 


983 


5,697.21 


Feb. 


1919 


3,041 


1,057 


5,125.66 


Mar. 


1919 


4,972 


648 


3,925.72 


Apr. 


1919 


2,205 


493 


2,597.20 


May 


1919 


2,549 


635 


3,278.85 


June 


1919 
totals 


5,909 


622 


4,070.99 


1 


431,506 


51,076 


$321,446.61 



Respectfully, 

PETER H. S. HENDRICKS. 

Postmaster. 



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NEW BRUNSWICK 




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MRS. JAMES A. O'CONNELL 
lan of the Women's Liberty Loan Committee 




MISS HELEN WHITE 
Secretary to the Medical Director of Exemption Hoard No. 1 




DR. AUSTIN SCOTT 
Chairman of Public Meetings 



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HE SAILORS AND THE COLORED MEN 




SOLDIERS' WELFAIIK AND FARP:\VELL COMMITTEE 
Left to right— F. M. Yorston, John J. Morrison, John P. Wall, 
Mayor I'airington. 




FIRST MEN CALLED TO BE EXAMINED FOR THE NATIONAL 
ARMY ON THE STEPS LEADING TO THE OFFICE OF THE 
EXEMPTION BOARD. 




CAPT. ROBT. C. NICHOLAS AND LIKL T. PKIUY L. VAN NUIS, 
N. J. S. R.. IN CHARGE OF THE MILITARY PROTECTION 
OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 




BIDDINC GODSPEED AND GOOD LUCK TO THE HOYS UPON 
THEIR DEPARTURE KOR TRAINING CAMP. ANDREW 
RAPPLEYEA AS UNCLE SAM. 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



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WARD 1. 

Poll 1. — Isaac Van Derveer, Charles Mcllvaine, 
James Howard, Fred Kilbourn, S. B. Carpender, 
James Van Middlesworth, C. H. Stokes, George Red- 
shaw, Eugene Gidney, Cornelius Failey, Joseph 
Hogarty, James A. O'Connell, Ferd Stahlin, John J. 
Walsh, Charles Skillman, Henry Austin, J. George 
Donnelly, Henry Frank, Thomas Donohue, Charles 
Ziramerly, Paul Wolf, Anthony Ritz, Harold O'Neill, 
Fred Blundell, M. Posin, Elmer Spratford, John 
Dobermiller. 

Poll 2.— Frank Weingart, B. Blum, William Van 
Nuis, Bert Cronk, Tyler Lewis, Edward J. Meagher, 
Henry C. Young, A. J. Reeves, Peter Satz, Harry 
Freedman, Percy McAvoy, Thomas H. Bates, R. Bar- 
nett, Frank M. Deiner, Samuel Schleimer, George 
Kuhn, Jacob Hoagland, H. Feller, Hei-bert Deshler, 
Henry Bomheimer, M. Katz, Archie Wark, H. Levine, 
Charles Weingart, Edward F. Farrington, Henry 
Bomheimer, John Collier, David Cohen, Chester 
Fouratt. 

Poll 3. — Clarence Reed, William Leach, Edward 
Earned, Charles H. Morris, Harry B. McKeag, J. J. 
Tomney, Edward Houghton, James Hefferty, John 
Cosgrove, Thomas Cleary, Rynear Sutphin, Howard 
Spratford, Harry Richardson, James McAllister, 
Charles Latham, Robert Carson, Ralph Holman, 
Raymond Stafford, William J. Banker, William Dein- 
zer, E. J. McLaughlin, Frank Reed, Abraham Jelin, 
Mon-is C. Ross. 

WARD 2. 

Poll 1. — Al Bennett, Edwin Carpender, William 
Van Nuis, Dr. Jacob Lipman, Albert Stults, Edward 
Hubbard, Benjamin W. Suydam, Henry Dunn, Tunis 
McCauley, Patrick Byrnes, Father Hollorhan, How- 
ard McCauley, Charles Lowe, Walter Masterson, 
Daniel J. Wray, William Gonch, John Ward, Frank 
Stokes, C. V. Carroll, Eugene Hayes, Frank Merritt, 
Joseph McDermott, Marcus Marks, Frank Knoll, 
Eugene Morris, Frank Connolly, Edward Space, Her- 
bert Grymes, Joseph Witte, Nelson Birch, A. Hardy, 
Joseph Cantore, P. P. Groben, M. F. Ross, Jr., W. P. 
Rappleyea, L. B. Chamberlain, Charles Tindell, S. R. 
Ross, Edward Brady, Duncan Battison. 

Poll2. — Robert Ross, Voorhees Cox, John McCalli- 
gan, Joseph Pell, Elmer E. Connolly, Mr. Dansberry, 
James White, Mr. Dickerson, J. Jonas, Mr. Hardy, 
Howard Rendall, Fred Fink, Ephraim White, Wil- 
liam Wolpert, John Tracy, Harold Outcalt, Jesse 
Strauss, Charles Hennyhrich, Harry Wherfritz, 



Theodore Runyon, S. Slonim, Frank W. Kessling. 

Poll 3. — Joseph McNally, Joseph J. Feaster, 
Arthur Schlosser, John Outcalt, Clarence Hill, H'.nxry 
Frish, George Hohleff, Frank Eichler, John Miller, 
Nicholas Bach, Tony Gencentr, John Strobel, Alfred 
Newton, Merwyn Holland, George Collins, Earl Mc- 
Caryo, Leron Serviss, Frank Baldwin, Robert Karch- 
men, Jr., John Bioice, Sr., Frank Blaner, Frank Russo, 
Joseph Lopoloso, Charles Meseroll, Jr., Arthur Deck- 
er, John Anderson, Harry Grimer, Harvey Tartaral- 
sky, John Know, John Birnburt, Andrew Zahn, 
Elmer G. Halstead, Samuel Shomo, Jacob Grossman, 
Charles Purtiz, A. Anndell, Fred B. Tappen, Harry 
Randolph, Nathaniel Brittingham, Alfred H. Puerfch- 
ner, Edwin Bartow, Louis Carr, Mrs. J. Berger. 
THIRD WARD 

Poll 2.— Jos. Fertig, H. V. Oliver, Bert Rhodes, 
Sam Spear, John Hubbard, Charles R. Dey, George 
Levy, Theodore Klaus, Conrad Rector, Lewis Hoag- 
land, William Jaques, Morris Levin, Morris Sauber, 
Sam Bears, Miss Lenora Shapiro, Miss Rose Flomen- 
hoft. 

Poll 3. — William Quackenboss, E. Jacobs, G. Henry, 
G. Baier, J. Schwartz, Leo Kahn, John McCaffery, 
Louis Toft, George Beatty, C. Josten, Morris Sauber, 
John Corrigan, D. Breitkoff, Joseph Stehlin, George 
Landmesser, C. Huszar, N. Gross, Edward Murphy, 
Louis Ruck, Fred Ruck, Thomas Manley, A. Staab, 
Louis Belloff. 

WARD 4. 

Poll 1. — Harry Marks, Eugene McLaughlin, John 
Paulus, Edward Cahill, Frank Hart, Milton Ros.s, H, 
Banker, Charles Forman, N. H. Terwilliger, James 
Mitchell, Ambrose New, A. C. Saunders, Frank Bar- 
tholomew, L. A. Heath, Edward Runyon, Joseph 
Cahill, William Schlesinger, William Staats, William 
Valient, Thomas Burke, Charles Jackson, Edward 
Palmer, Samuel Spitz, Walter Van Deursen, Norman 
Moore, J. N. Adams, Eugene Verick, John H. Pey- 
ton, Ralph Peyton, Morris Bauer, Stewart Stephen- 
son, Theodore Stoetzel, Fred Thickstun, Frank Welk- 
er, Fred Finn, Charles Schaefer, George D. Johnson, 
Harry Burton, W. T. Perdun. 

Poll 2.— Harvey L. Hullfish, Frederick W. Conger, 
Leon Campbell, William N. Van Doren, William H. 
Whitfield, William E. Woodruff, Louis Messerole, 
George R. Deshler, Abram Voorhees, Arthur Hardy, 
Charles A. Groves, Robert J. Smith, William H. Col- 
bum, Abram S. Howell, George J. Litterst, Henry B. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Manning, Frederick C. Smalley, Elmer Lowe, E. W. 
Brown, James McGovem, Joseph Tiemey, G. W. 
Miller, Robert S. Graham, John O'Donnell, William 
A. Stout, Richard Caldwell, Peter H. S. Hendricks, 
Samuel C. Irven, Alfred Fleming, Russell Bergen, 
William H. Hendricks, James R. Gladden, Raymond 
E. Eden, Louis G. Frost, Frank E. Campbell. 

Poll 3.— Jacob G. Temple, Fred Conger, Edward J. 
Connolly, S. M. Starkey, John A. Smith, James N. 
Curran, Milton Strauss, Charles T. Wales, Damon W. 
Barrett, James Whitlock, L V. D. Flagg, John Barton, 
John W. Wilcox, Henry Gray, Clifton G. Mott, 
Thomas H. Shaw, Ralph Gorsline, Max Lederer, 
Harry Marks, Thomas F. Creighton, Jabez Helm, J. 
D. Marcus, E. A. Brower, Edward Houghton, Charles 
Crawford, Charles A. Schenck, Charles P. Lang, 
Elmer E. Wyckoff, Louis Wolfson, Fred Richardson, 
Spencer Gardner, Aaron E. Homer, George E. Wild- 
man, Fred Hamer, Edward Garrigan, W. H. Penning- 
ton, W. A. Jamison, W. F. Church, Walter Otis, 
Rudolph Wolff, George W. Bowne, Charles Groben, 
Isaac F. Berdine, Edgar G. Cuthbert, E. F. Hough- 
ton, J. J. Rooney. 

Poll 4. — James Barrett, Harry Criss, Thomas F. 
Boylan, James Nafey, Edward J. Gleason, Frank 
Erhardt, Harold Nagle, John McCloskey, Patrick 
Sweeney, Julius Rolf, James F. Donahue, Lcuis 
Cereghino, Thomas Dobson, Clarence Bergen, Harry 
Campbell, Simon Shannon, Clarence Baier, Nicholas 
Mulligan, Thomas Dunn, George Adams, Edward 
White, John Cortelyou, John P. Donnegan, James 
Barrett, Charles Blue, Edward Foley, Howard 
Crouch, Theodore Turner, John Phadden, Thomas 
Revolinski, John Holland, Harry Weaver, Irwin 
Smith, Harry M. Francis, Hugh Geogehan, John R. 
Watson, Charles Greenewald. 
WARD 5. 

Poll 1. — Henry Robinson, William H. Everson, Dr. 
William Macom, C. E. Bedford, C. E. Dalrymple, 
Barney Marks, George Gathers, William Latham, 
Dr. David C. English, Dr. R. J. Faulkingham, Philip 
Kahn. 

Poll 2. — Dr. L. Loblein, John Kampton, James A. 
McGowan, James A. Cahill, Edward Gross, 
Jeremiah Pule, John B. Henley, Lawrence 
Cosgrove, John Harkins, Dr. Lawrence Mundy, Law- 
rence Webber, Duncan McNair, Peter F. Daly, Theo. 
Strong, Thomas Egan, John A. Manley, George 
Bucko, Raymond Lyons, John R. Clark, Alexander 
Gold, Frank Parker, William Board, John T. Kemp, 



George Banker, William Bartholomew, Samuel 
Skewis. Charles A. Manley, Milton Jacques, Edward 
Gross, Michael Smith, Alfred S. March, I. N. Blue, 
Thomas Hefferman, William Dewhurst, Edgar P. 
Vliet, J. J. McManus, Michael O'Connell, George W. 
Wilmot, Sr. 



WARD 6. 

Poll 1. — James A. Morrison, Joseph New, Jr., 
Charles Harding, John Monigan, Devid Beyrouty, 
Harry Williams, Prof. William B. Stone, Prof. George 
W. Nuttman, William L. Daly, James H. Maher, 
William F Harkins, James A. Harkins, Howard Rule, 
Schuyler C. Van Cleef, William Barnwell, Raymond 
B. Searle, Prof. Fred H. Dodge, George F. McCor- 
mick, Edward V. McCormick, Thomas H. Hagerty 
Asher Atkinson, Ernest Kuhlthau, Eugene Atkinson, 
Eugene P. Darrow, William J. Banker, George 
Nelson, John P. Wall, Harry J. Hayes, 
Edward Masterson, John Lyons, Fred Arm- 
bruster, Gerald Bums, James Mulligan, George Mor- 
rison, Theodore Whitlock, Edward J. Banker, Charles 
Deshler, Edward Johnson, Charles A. McCormick, Jr. 
Prof. Louis Bevier, William L. Strong, Prof. R. C. H. 
Heck, Prof. W. R. Newton and Prof. A. C. DeReg:t 

Poll 2.— Luke Lyons, Robert Fellows, John Lef- 
ferts, Paul Witte, Carl Petrie, Charles Holtzapel, 
Thomas Bowne, W. Stolz, L. Board, W. Schneider, 
John Yackey, Fred Cole, W. Feller, John Knoll, John 
Newton, Howard Whitehead, Fred Smith, George 
Seidel, Robert Ford, A. Hall, Charles Elberson, Rus- 
sell Reid, B. F. Preis, Eugene Preis, Chester Bunt- 
ing. 

Poll 3.— John J. Kinney, R. P. Wilson, Irving 
Quackenboss, C. P. Wilber, William R. Lee, Henry 
D. Hobson, R. O. Smith, William L. Reid, A. Wayne 
Clark, Joseph N. JefFeries, Ray P. Wilson, George 
Wickers, Harry Stanley, George Holman, Andrew 
Gebhardt, M. Waldorf, Harold Skewis, John E. An- 
derson, Prof. W. T. Marvin, William Rastall, Charles 
Dodge, Harry J. Moore, Ernest Webb, Theo. Whit- 
lock, John L. Daly, Theo. Lester, Sr., James Curi-an, 
Frank Dunlap, John Coleman, Jr., John Coleman, Sr., 
Anthony Silzer, William Hannon, James Kidney, 
Asher Van Dom, Martin Roth, Frank Harkins, Frank 
Howley, Robert Kenyon, Lawrence Donohue, Thomas 
H. Howley, Ambrose Hennessy, Henry Dunn, Ed- 
mund Kidney, Timothy Kane, Sr., Jos. Hayes, John 
Kenney. 



Ninety-eight 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



Hkitoiry ®{F Hike M©w Eimimswflclk 



On July 20th, 1898, at the time of the Spanish- 
American War, a number of our patriotx women met 
in Christ Church Parish House and organized them- 
selves into a war relief society adopting the consti- 
tution of the National Red Cross Society, and were 
known as Auxiliary No. 80, A. R. C. There were 
about 170 members enrolled and the first three 
months we find that this Auxiliary furnished 1139 
garments and linen articles for the army hospitals, 
331 articles of food delicacies, $216.62 in money. 
The society continued its work for the duration of 
the war, and disbanded October 29th, 1900. 

Fourteen years later many of the same mem- 
bers met to organize another war relief society. 
After one or two informal meetings the New Bruns- 
wick Chapter was regularly organized under the 
direction of Mr. Charles Jenkinson, at that time 
Director of the Atlantic Division, A. R. C, on Octo- 
ber 14th, 1914, with a chairman, vice-chairman, 
secretary and treasurer, said officers to hold office 
for one year. 

The Day Nursery on French Street was the first 
official headquarters and continued as such until 
Mrs. Charles Hart offered the room in her home, 
which had been her husband's library. With the 
beginning of the war in April, 1917, the society 
found its work and its membership growing rapidly. 
In addition to hospital garments and supplies, the 
making of surgical dressings was begun, and the need 
for additional room became apparent. The Home 
Defense having secured the Leupp Building on 
Albany Street for their use, generously gave two 
rooms on the second floor to the Red Cross; part 
of the work was done there and part at Mrs. Hart's. 
In November the third floor of the new Reed Build- 
ing on George Street was secured. The new quar- 
ters gave three large work rooms and an office suf- 
ficient for all purposes. Through the courtesy of 
Mrs- Hart, the Chapter still had the use of the room 
in her home. 

From the date of organization in 1914 to July 
1st, 1919, the following supplies were made: 

Hospital Garments and Supplies 14,082 

Knitted Articles 6,104 

Refugee Garments 4,.>85 

Surgical Dressings — 

Gauze 128,724 

Muslin _ 45,211 

173,935 

Christmas Packets 494 

Most of these articles were shipped to the 
Atlantic Division in New York, but a small propor- 



tion was distributed for special purposes according 
to orders from Headquarters. 

The important branch of the Chapter activities, 
the Home Service Section, was organized early in 
1917. This aim of the Home Service was the relief 
of the families of the soldiers, sailors and marines, 
the adjustment of the hundred and one problems in 
connection with delayed allotments, missing relations, 
war risk insurance, financial help when necessary, 
and always the spirit of helpful service. Over 600 
persons were helped in various ways. 

The Chapter had two Branches, at Milltovim and 
East Millstone, Auxiliaries in the churches of St. 
Peter's and Sacred Heart, besides eight out of town 
Auxiliaries, namely Highland Park, Franklin Park, 
Spotswood, Helmetta, Dayton, Jamesburg, Piscat- 
away and Old Bridge. 

There was a membership drive in May, 1917, a 
second one Christmas, 1917, and the third one Christ- 
mas, 1918. The total membership of the Chapter 
January 1st, 1919 was 15,229. 

In April, 1918, the Motor Corps was organized 
with thirty-fice members, who cheerfully gave their 
time and the use of their cars for the work of the 
Red Cross. They did particularly good work at the 
Morgan disaster in October, 1918. 

The Junior Red Cross work was well organized 
throughout the city and auxiliaries, about twenty 
schools reporting 1007o membership. For the first 
year each school handled its o^vn funds, and out- 
lined its work in accordance with the plans of the 
Junior Red Cross Bureau, Atlantic Division. Later 
the Junior Red Cross placed all its funds under one 
treasurer, and up to July l-.t, 1919, sent in to the 
Atlantic Division $600.00. In addition to this money, 
the Juniors helped in the work of the Chapter by 
giving their time to sewing and knitting for the 
men in service as well as for the refugees, and 
also sent many comforts and gifts to the Govern- 
ment hospitals. 

The Chapter also held two War Fund Drives and 
they raised $89,342.71. 

August, 1918, the Chapter held a very pleasant 
Conference for all its workers in the Ballantine 
Gymnasium with several speakers from the Atlantic 
Division, and an excellent luncheon served in the 
Zeta Psi Fraternity House. 

On May 28th, 1919, acting upon instructions from 
Headquarters, the Chapter awarded Certificates and 
Service Badges to 207 members, who had given from 
400 to 3200 hours of service to Red Cross, from 
April, 1917, to April, 1919, and to those who had 
done special work in the various campaigns. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



The Chapter purchased a well equipped ambul- 
ance, at a cost of $4,200.00, for the use of tne city 
hospitals; the City Commissioners provided a 
garage free of charge, and the City Firemen offered 
to run it and care for it without charge. The Chap- 
ter deeply appreciated this spirit of service on the 
part of the city officials as well as the firemen. 

The Chapter felt ithat much of its efficiency was 
due to the generous support of the public outside 
of its regular body of workers, to the business 
organizations, the churches, the public press, the 
many persons, whose donations of time, money and 
service helped the Red Cross to do its share in win- 
ning the war. 

In one respect the Chapter's history was rather 
remarkable, for, until a stenographer was placed in 
the Home Service office April 1st, 1919, no adminis- 
trative expenses were incured, everything, even rent, 
was donated, and everybody worked without pay. 
It was a strong volunteer organization, something 
that cannot be said of all the chapters in the Ameri- 
can Red Cross, and the members should be proud 
of the record. 

THE WORK OF THE RED CROSS FIRST DRIVE 

In order to secure the funds required for relief 
work, two drives were developed. Because of the im- 
portance of the work and its distinctive character, 
the committee in charge of .this campaign was known 
as a War Finance Committee, appointed by the 
President, and under it were local committees 
covering the entire' United States. The members of 
the local Red Cross Finance Committee were: Mayor 
Edward F. Farrington, James W. Johnson, James K- 

Rice, Jr., Henry G. Parker, Edward W. Hicks; J. 
Hauvette Michelin and Dr. Frank M. Donahue. 

The first war drive was conducted in this city 

between June 18 and 27, 1917 and was directed by 

the following committee: Chairman, Edward W. 

Hicks; Secretary, John P. Wall; Treasurer, F. M- 

Yorston. 
""Executive Committee: Sydney B. Carpender, 

Henry G. Parker, Freeman Woodbridge, William G. 

Bearman, Dr. F. M. Donahue, John P. Wall, Edward 

W. Hicks, F. M. Yorston. 

Highland Park, Mrs. Edward W. Hicks and Mrs. 

A. L. Smith; Milltown, Hauvette Michelin and Mrs. 

Conrad W. Kulthau; Millstone, Mrs. J. H. Cooper. 
As this was the first time that the public were 

requested to give liberally for war work it was 

necessary to educate them up to give substantial 

donations. This was no easy task, and as funds 

did not come in as fast as was necessary many 

appeals had to be made. Mayor Farrington in one 

of his appeals to the citizens said: 

"This is the hour when our honor, as residents of 

the city which has never failed to stand first in 

One hundred 



patriotism, is at stake. There is only one question 
for each one of us to answer today. Our own sons 
and brothers ;tre going to the front, to sacrifice their 
lives, if need be. That man or woman who does not 
give every last cent that can be spared to see to it 
that those who are fighting for our safety are given 
every care ought to carry the brand of shame in 
his or her heart forever. Men and women of New 
Brunswick, answer this question today: "Have I 
given all that I can to protect those that are pro- 
tecting me?" 

John P. Wall, secretary of the local campaign 
committee in a statement said: 

"New Bi-unsvvick is short on its allotment. This 
must be raised. Our citizens must not think that 
this war is a picnic, it is nothing of the sort. Our 
town boys are to suffer, just the same as any other 
soldier in the trenches and it is up to us to see that 
our share in this great work of the Red Cross is 
done. 

"No one knows whose father, son or brother will 
need the tender care of the nurse on the battle field. 
"Now is the time to give, we may just as well 
give now and prepare for the comfort of our wound- 
ed, for just as sure as the sun shines our town boys 
will bear their share in this great war. It seems 
to me that it will take a great disaster to make us 
realize that we are at war. 

"The fact that one has subscribed to the Liberty 
Loan is no excuse for not giving to the Red Cross- 
When one took a liberty bond they put money away 
at good interest just the same as if they had put it 
in a bank or a building loan. Come across with 
your donations, it may be to help your own son and 
it will surely be for one of your relatives. Dig down, 
old and young, you can all give something. 

"It will be one of the regrets of your life if you 
don't support the organization that is to take the 
place of father and mother to our boys when they 
are away from home. If a collector does not call 
on you, send your contribution to the Home Defense 
League Headquarters. 

"The big necessity of the present is to finance 
the Red Cross so liberally as to give it the chance 
to step into the gap and do a grand work of upbuild- 
ing and inspiring our allies while our soldiers are 
being mobilized and trained. 

"And doing this we are not merely rendering 
moral encouragement, but actual physical help to the 
fighting armies in France. We are taking from the 
shoulders of an overburdened nation the task of help- 
ing these unfortunates. Thus we are increasing the 
man power of France at the very time when this 
counts most. We plan to take these helpless thous- 
ands back from the fringes of the armies and set 
them up in life so they can help themselves. 

"This is not charity. Don't let anybody get that 
idea for a moment. It is debt paying. We owe all 
that and vastly more to France that has poured out 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



her blood for us. It is the least we can do while our 
armies of fighting men are getting ready to serve in 
the trenches." 

These appeals had the desired effect and the open 
heart of New Brunswick contributed $27,071.13, and 
set the pace that was kept up until the end of the 

SECOND DRIVE 

The second drive was conducted between May 
20 and 27, 1918. The quota for New Brunswick was 
placed at $35,000 and the amount subscribed was 
$62,271.58. Robert W. Johnson was chairman of 
this drive and it was through his efforts that it was 
euch a success. All sorts of performances were 
used to secure funds and an account of ''Tag Day" 
end the Italian celebration is given as well as the 
an account of the big meeting at the Opera House 
conducted by Miss Bingham. 

BINGHAM MEETING 

The Red Cross rally held at the Opera House on 
Sunday afternoon, May 19, 1918, was without doubt, 
the greatest held in New Brunswick during the war. 
The speaker was Miss Amelia Bingham, and $6,473 
was raised for the Red Cross Fund. 

"I think New Brunswick people are just splendid," 
declared Miss Bingham at the Opera House after she 
had started New Brunswick well on its way of rais- 
ing its $35,000 quota for the Red Cross War Fund. 
"During the Liberty Loan campaigns I sold over 
$4,300,000 worth of bonds, but I never had an audi- 
ence which joined more heartily into the spirit of 
giving for war relief than this audience this after- 
noon." 

The raising of this money came as a eort of an 
after thought with Miss Bingham. She had con- 
cluded a remarkable address and the audience was 
thundering in its applause. She whispered a few 
words to Chairman George H. Payson, and then 
stilled the audience and said that she had thought 
that she was through, but that she didn't feel alto- 
gether comfortable without giving the people an op- 
portunity to show their real interest in the Red 
Cross work. She said that she had become so accus- 
tomed to asking audiences for subscriptions that she 
couldn't go back to New York without an appeal to 
this audience. 

She said that she had come here at a personal 
sacrifice and she wanted to go back to New York 
with the knowledge that her visit had been of benefit 
to the Red Cross. 

"Is there anybody in the house who will give me 
$500?" she asked. 

"$500!" shouted Robert C. Nicholas from one of 
the boxes. 

"Make it a thousand," quickly added R. W. John- 
son. 

"$500 more," announced J. K. Rice, Jr., from a 
rear seat- 

"Isn't that splendid, $1,500 already, and we have 



scarcely begun," exclaimed Miss Bingham. 

In quick succession came $100 each from Mrs. 
M- F. Ross and Judge Peter F. Daly, and $25u from 
Mrs. Nicholas Rutgers, Jr. 

James W. Johnson whispered something to Miss 
Bingham and disappeared into the wings of the 
stage. 

Miss Bingham gave a merry shout of joy, ran 
after Mr. Johnson, grabbed him by the arm, pulled 
him out onto the stage and shouted: 

"He has just given me $1,000-" 

The applause was deafening. Chairman George 
H. Payson gave $50 and a moment later when Dr. 
Elliot R. Payson's name was announced for $100, 
Chairman Payson yelled: "Make my subscription 
$100. I'll not be outdone by my brother." 

As fast as Red Cross workers could get around 
the audience to take the subscriptions carne the 
announcements — $200 here, $100 there, $5o over 
there. As soon as there was a lull. Miss Bingham 
announced that she was going to show how easy 
it is to raise $100. 

"You know $100 is only four $25's so all we need 
is four subscriptions of $25 each and we will have 
$100." 

In a twinkling she had the four $25 subscriptions^ 
"See how easy it is," she added. 

She raised several more hundred in that way. 
When there was a lull she reminded the audience 
that she had to catch a train, and the subscriptions 
immediately picked up again. 

The fund reached the $4,000 mark so quickly that 
Miss Bingham said that she thought she would have 
time to stay to see it $5,000, if the audience was 
agreeable. And the audience was. Mrs. Robert C. 
Nicholas started the race toward the $5,000 mark 
with a $500 subscription and in a very short time 
the fund had reached $5,400. 

"I can't go now till we get $6,000," said Miss 
Bingham, even if I have to stay for supper. 

"Fifty cents from a little girl," announced one 
of the Red Cross workers. That started things all 
over again. Amid applause there was a quick suc- 
cession of subscriptions. 

One of Camp Dix singers stepped out on the 
stage. "Miss Bingham, $100 from the Camp Dix 
Colored Glee Club," he announced. 

That got the crowd and it affected Miss Bing- 
ham as nothing else had. 

"You know what those boys are doing. They 
have offered themselves for your protection. They 
are getting $30 a month. Now they are giving from 
their meagre wage to help the Red Cross. You know 
what you are earning a month. Is your sacrifice as 
great as theirs?" she appealed. 

When $152 was needed to reach the $6,000 mark, 
Abraham Marcus, who had previously given a $100 
subscription, announced another $100 on behalf of 
the Young Men's Hebrew Association. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



Even after the $6,000 mark had been reached and 
the solicitation ceased and the audience was being 
dismissed, the subscriptions continued to pour in and 
when a final count was made it was found tnat 
$6,473 had been pledged. The meeting was a 
triumph for Miss Bingham. 

The stage was attractively decorated with large 
American and Allied flags with a Red Cross banner 
in the center and palms were arranged at the back 
of the seats, which were occupied by members of the 
Red Cross Campaign Committee on the platform. 

Dr. G. H. Payson was master of ceremonies and 
after opening the meeting gave a short and interest- 
ing address. Rev. Herbert Parrish offered a prayer 
and the Camp Dix double quartette rendered several 
pleasing numbers, after which Dr. Payson introduced 
Miss Bingham, the speaker of the day. 

From the moment she said the first word she held 
the interest of her audience until the close of her 
remarks. She did not try to demand things from 
her audience, but appealed to them through the 
mediums of the best and truest human sentiments. 

Thoroughly in sympathy with her subject, pre- 
senting it with the ease of a person long accustom- 
ed to large audiences. Miss Bingham brought home 
to many some truths about the war ithat perhaps had 
been overlooked before. 

Robert W. Johnson, chairman of the Second 
Red Cross War Fund, who was the prime mover in 
getting Miss Bingham to come to New Brunswick, 
refused to accept any congratulations for the success 
of the meeting. "Miss Bingham deserves all the 
credit," he said. 

A number of local Red Cross women, attired in 
Red Cross costume, acted as ushers and distributed 
cards to those who made donations or gave subscrip- 
tions, also took up the collection which amounted to 
over $150 in cash. The benediction was pronounced 
by Rev. Dr. W. W .Knox. 
CITY RED CROSS TAG DAY ONE OF LIVELIEST 

EVER WITNESSED IN NEW BRUNSWICK 

New Brunswick went Red Cross mad on May 25, 
1918. Everywhere the Red Cross was to be seen. 
Red Cross women, untiring in their efforts, trod the 
streets all day and with the assistance of the fire- 
men and police, they tagged thousands of men, 
women and children with either a three-inch card- 
board Red Cross, a celluloid Red Cross tag, or a plain 
Red Cross button. Many persons appeared on the 
streets wearing all three insignias. 

It was a great day for the Red Cross cau^e. It 
was a day that never will be forgotten- So com- 
plete were the arrangements made that there was 
some attraction going on every minute of the day 
that netted the Red Cross money. 

The Red Cross campaign was carried into every 
nook and comer of the city. Every outlet of the 
city was well covered by women and men who stop- 
ped every autoist and pedestrian coming in and go- 

One hundred two 



ing out. Hundreds of dollars were drained from 
the pockets of the autoists on their way into this 
city. It mattered not to the workers whether these 
autoists were tagged in some other city, they had 
to shell out here before being permitted to trespass 
upon our boundary. 

It is safe to say that so far as possible every 
individual in New Brunswick was approacned in 
some way with an appeal to contribute to the Red 
Cross. The magic of the Red Cross touched many 
who heretofore were never known to give to a 
worthy cause like this one. 

"THE BIG SHOW" 

That is what the attraction at the comer of 
Albany and George streets was called by all. Here 
a varied program of events held a vast crowd 
throughout the day. So large was the crowd at 
times that it extended beyond the hearing of the 
speakers who enthused all with their speeches on 
the great work of the Red Cross. 

"Jack" Watson, City Recorder; George Gathers, 
civilian Army Recruiting Major of New Jersey; 
Samuel Schleimer, chaiiman of the "Four Minute" 
men and R- W. Johnson, general chairman of the 
Red Cross were in personal charge of this show 
which netted over $1,000. The attractions were 
many and held the attention of the big crowd at all 
times. 

Speeches were made by each of these gentlemen, 
Dr. George H. Payson, pastor of the Suydam street 
Reformed Church; Rev. Dr. Kulp, pastor of the 
First Presbyterian Church; Rev. Father Holloran, 
of Sacred Heart Church; "Jack" Dempsey, Samuel 
Hoffman, Judge Freeman Woodbridge, Mayor Ed- 
ward F. Farrington, Rev. John A. Ingham of the 
Second Reformed Church, Sergeant Rushton, and 
Private Metcalf, members of the famous Black 
Watch Regiment, of Canada. 

AUCTION EXCITING 
When it came to playing the role of an auctioneer 
"Jack" Watson was at his best. "Jack" auctioned 
most everything from a jar of cherries to a bull calf. 
A sword of the German-Franco war presented to the 
committee by Mrs. Charles Blundell brought the 
tidy sum of $28. The bull calf brought $36 and a 
palm presented to the committee by R. W. Johnson 
brought $10 on the first sale and $15 on the second 
sale. Samuel Schleimer bought the palm when it 
was first auctioned and then returned it to the com- 
mittee. When it came up for sale the second time, 
Henry Landsberg bid $15 for it and he also returned 
it to the committee. 

The jars of cherries brought from $1.50 to $2-50. 
A picture of "Chickitha" who appeared in "Jackie" 
Clark's menagerie drawn by a soldier from Camp 
Raritan, was sold for $1.50. There were all sorts of 
articles sold from the platform which brought from 
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"OVER THE TOP" 

The fire "laddies" under the command of Com- 
missioner Edward J. Houghton were on the job 
throughout the day and one of the many new stunts 
which they sprung during the day was the raising 
of a ladder to the Tepper building. Mrs. Coats of 
River Road who gained some fame several years ago 
by climbing to the .top of the largest pole at the 
wireless station added considerable money to the 
Red Cross fund by climbing this ladder. 

Starting from the bottom rung she slowly climb- 
ed to the top, advancing a rung only when some one 
gave a dollar to the cause. On the first trip to the 
top over thirty-five dollars was contributed while on 
other trips from twenty to thirty dollars was 
secured. 

Captain Thomas Murphy of Truck Company 
climbed the ladder on each occasion with Mrs. Coats. 
Shortly before 9 o'clock when she went to the top of 
the ladder for the last time, Captain Murphy was 
attired in the uniform of Uncle Sam while Mrs. Coats 
carried an American flag. Upon reaching the top 
with the spotlight playing on Captain Murphy and 
Mrs. Coats, the Home Guard Drum corps played the 
Star Spangled Banner. 

Another feature at this show was the singing of 
Policeman Samuel Boice and Fireman Andrew Rhine- 
Each selection sung by these two city employees 
brought the fund a five dollar bill- Alan Richardson 
accompanied the singers on the piano. 
CLARK'S MENAGERIE 

"Jackie" Clark with all the freaks that Bamum 
wished he had, held forth in the Viehmann build- 
ing and to say that "Jackie" didn't attract a crowd 
would be doing him an injustice. Among the ex- 
hibits in the show was a box of coal wliich was 
labeled "Penna. Diamonds." There were also sev- 
eral exhibits of pigs, a calf, chickens, kittens, cats, 
bricks, etc, which caused more than one laugh. One 
of the main features was the appearance of "Chick- 
itha," a young woman of 23 years, who was scarcely 
two feet in height. Over $200 was derived from 
this show. 

NAILING THE KAISER 

One of the other stunts from the committee's 
bagful of tricks was sprang in the afternoon on 
George street. A box was stretched across the side- 
walk and the general public was invited to hammer 
a nail in the "kaiser's coffin." Needless to say hun- 
dreds of nails were hammered into the coffin, many 
wishing that they really were nailing the "Kaiser's 
coffin." To drive a nail cost one a nickel. 
ITALIAN DAY 

Sunday, May 26, 1918, was truly Italian Day 
in New Brunswick. From early morning till late at 
night the Italians were active, canvassing for the 
Red Cross and in all a total of ?860 was added to 
the already large fund. 

During the morning the collectors were busy 



going from house to house and at 2 o'clock in the 
afternoon the forces assembled at the St. Mary of 
Mount Virgin Church where the Italian service flag 
of New Brunswick was blessed by Father Christiana. 
Ninety-one stars were on the flag, each one repre- 
senting an Italian young man who has gone forth 
from the city of New Brunsvrick, placing his life at 
the disposal of Uncle Sam. 

Immediately after the services at the church 
a parade formed and proceeded down Remsen avenue 
to George, to Somerset, to Easton, to Albany, to 
Peace, to Church, and finally entered the Eagles' 
Hall on Church street. 

It was a great occasion. A thousand men were 
in line, forming a great patriotic parade a mile and 
a half long. 

MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN 

The greatest membership campaign in the his- 
tory of the American Red Cross began on December 
17, 1917, and continued until Christmas day. Plans 
were launched for the big drive for members at a 
conference of the respective chairmen of the various 
Red Cross auxiliaries of the New Brunswick chapter 
which embraced East Millstone, Middlebush, Mill- 
town, Jamesburg, Helmetta, Old Bridge, Spotswood 
and Piscataway, held at the home of Mrs. Frank M- 
Donohue. 

Campaign Director Robert W. Johnson presided 
and in detail discussed just what was before each 
auxiliary of the county in this campaign. 

Almost every language was used to spread the 
appeal and every church in the city was a propa- 
ganda station with pastors urging their congrega- 
tions to carry the Red Cross membership work into 
their homes. The work of the Red Cross in healing 
the wounded was vividly presented in numerous 
sermons throughout the city, and in some churches 
the congregations were urged to join as a unit. 

The predominating feature of the whole campaign 
was the reproduction of a French-made trench at 
the comer of Livingston avenue and George street 
In this trench was everything imaginable used by 
the French in their trench fighting. The barbed 
wire entanglement could be seen from outside the 
trench, which was several feet under the ground. On 
top of the trench were hundreds of bags of sand. 
In the dugout, a Red Cross woman was on hand each 
day to enlist Red Cross recruits. There were also 
guns in the trench and a gun mount. 

One of the striking features of the campaign was 
carried into effect on Christmas night when all the 
church bells were rung and in the window of the 
home of every Red Cross member a Red Cross flag 
was illuminated. 

During Christmas week 1918, a membership drive 
was held. Mr. Johnson also directed it and made it 
a grand success- The last membership drive was 
held Christmas week, 1919, and was managed entire- 

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ly by ex-service men. Captain Charles Reed being 
chairman. . 

CHRISTMAS CARTONS ^ 

The Red Cross sent out 494 Christmas Packets in 
1918, to the soldiers in the A. E- F. It was neces- 
sary that the soldier to whom a packet was sent 
should furnish a self addressed label. As the mails 
were delayed only few labels reached this city be- 
fore November 15. On that date the time for send- 
ing packets was extended from the 20th to the 30th 
of November and a notice was received from the 
Red Cross Headquarters in New York allowing the 



local chapter to issue labels to the nearest relatives. 
Candy, cigarettes and chocolates were mostly sent, 
but some real "home comforts" such as silk socks, 
bed room slippers, silk handkerchiefs and embroid- 
ered ties were among the articles inspected and pass- 
ed by the censor. 

The committee in charge were Abram S. Howell, 
Dr. Chas. H. Whitman, John P. Wall, Wm. S. Rich- 
ardson and Elmer E. Connolly. The weighing and 
wrapping of the cartons was under the direction of 
Mrs. Geo. E. Wilkinson and Miss Ella H. Halstead. 
assisted by several other ladies of the chapter. 




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Shortly after that eventful day in April, 1917, 
when we went forward as crusaders in the cause of 
righteousness and entered the war, our women mob- 
ilized their forces, and immediately joined the many 
big organizations equipped to accept their service. 
Each ship that sailed carried away scores of our 
eplendid women who asked for nothing better than 
to join the vast iirmy whose mission it was to heal, 
to help and to save. They too, would not come back 
until "all was over over there." 

Through the activities of the Red Cross and 
other national organizations, each day as the ships 
left our ports, untiring and efficient canteen workers 
served in the stations and on the piers. Each day 
the soldiers and the sailors were bidden God-speed. 
They were fed and lodged and cared for. The 
women who stayed home gave them the un- 
varying confidence that their beloved ones who re- 
mained behind would be taken care of, no matter 
what their own fate might be. And so, just as 
the women of France were mobilizing in 1914, 
so were the women of America mobilizedi n 1917 and 
all became sisters in the defense of one common 
cause. They had found their souls in a ser\'ice 
which had rekindled their faith in humanity. The 
road to Calvary had been revealed to the women 
when it became the highway of the men. They 



knew that blessed were they who had mourned be- 
cause they were to be comforted by God. Whether 
in mansion or in cabin, in city or in country, rich or 
poor, strong or weak, young or old, every woman 
became morally and patriotically mobilized, and the 
men fighting at the front knew through defeat or 
victory that their women were keeping the home fires 
burning. 

The women of New Brunswick surely did their 
part, both as individuals and through their organiza- 
tions. In war drives and Red Cross work, in enter- 
taining the soldiers from Camp Raritan, as well as 
carrying cheer to the boys at Colonia Hospital, they 
lived up to the love that they had for the father, 
son, brother or sweetheart on the battlefields of 
France, some of whom sorely needed the soothing 
care of a woman's hand. 

New Brunswick women worked as one family in 
doing war work. Church women gave over their 
Ladies' Aid and Church Improvement Society meet- 
ings to rolling bandages or do sewing for the Red 
Cross. Entertainments by church organizations of 
various kinds, individuals, schools and relief boards 
aided in doing their bit for war work relief. And 
the result was remarkable, not only in the amount 
of work done, but the magnificent financial results. 

Evidence of this is given in the result of the Fourth 
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Liberty Loan when the women of New Brunswick 
raised $1,000,400, while in the Thrift and War Stamp 
Drives the sum of $22,657.36 was raised. 

Many women, who hitherto had lived quiet home 
lives, entered the business world in every capacity 
in order to fill the places of men called to service. 
They were found in the banks, the stores, offices, 
bakeries, laundries, postoifice, farms and in dairies. 
Society women gave up social duties to help in the 
hospital work so as to relieve nurses for greater 
service. 

Patiently, persistently, labored these wonderful 
women. They only rested when tired nature com- 
pelled them to pause. They never complained of 
weariness. So long as they could serve, nothing 
else mattered. No task was too menial for them. 

Women learned to run automobiles so as to offer 
their service to carry messages, carry wounded and 
do everything that was possible for them to do with 
their cars. Their particular service was demon- 
strated at the time of the Morgan disaster when 
their cars were used to bring the homeless to this 
city or to take them to nearby relatives, to carry 
food to the Morgan and South Amboy sufferers. 

These same women later put their cars at the ser- 
Tice of the wounded soldiers at Colonia to bring them 
over to this city to be entertained and to see they 
were safely taken back to the hospital. 

The women opened their homes on Sunday or for 
the week-ends for the convalescent soldiers or the 
homesick men at Camp Raritan and gave them a 
touch of home life which was most appreciated by 
the lonesome and homesick ones. 

The D. A. R. opened a hut at Camp Raritan 
where the soldiers could entertain their relatives 
when they came great distances to see them and 
where privacy was offered to the reunion of mother 
and son, husband and wife, sister and brother, 
or sweethearts. 

The women on the Jewish Welfare Board did a 
lot at Camp Raritan to make the soldiers comfort- 
able there as did the Daughters of Isabella and the 
wives and friends of the Knights of Columbus at 
their commodious hut. The Y. M. C. A. hut had its 
women supporters and many a delightful entertain- 
ment was arranged by town women to cheer up the 
Boldier boys. 

In every drive, in every bit of work planned the 
WOMEN 

Miss Helen C. White, Mrs. Asher Atkinson, Mrs. 
Livingston Barbour, Mrs. H. H. Bond, Mrs. E. P. 
Darrow, Mrs. James A. O'Connell, Mrs. James Van 
Middlcsworth, Mrs. Skilman, Beatrice Stahlin, 
Miss Paulus, Hazel Thomas, Miss Byrne, Mrs. 
H. R. Lewis, Miss Nell O'Connell, Miss Smith, Miss 
Julia Sullivan, Miss Conlon, Mrs. Stokes, Miss Katie 
Howard, Josephine Becker, Evelyn Macom, Mrs. 

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women entered whole heartedly into every phase of 

the work. 

As chairman of the Women's Liberty Loan Com- 
mittee Mrs. James A. O'Connell did notable work, 
Miss Helen White was the one woman, who, as sec- 
retary to Dr. Cook, had to listen patiently to the tale 
of woe of those men who applied for exemption 
before Local Board No. 1, of Middlesex County. She 
worked all day and long into the night helping the 
draft officials. Miss Evangeline Johnson served with 
the Ambulance Corps in France. Miss Sally Parker 
served first as an ambulance driver in France, but 
later as a nurse at Nuelly, France. Miss Voronica 
Wahler served as an Army Nurse and was stationed 
at Lakevvood, N. J. Miss Celia Jacobs served in 
France, Germany and Siberia. Others who served 
as nurses, were Miss Kathrine Maeley, Miss Ella 
Kearney, Miss Marion McKinney, Miss Norma Derr, 
Evelyn B. Taylor, Miss McLally, Clara Sprague. 

When the Red Cross issued an appeal for trained 
nurse in October, 1917, Miss Katherine C. Hanna 
reported for service overseas. She was sent to 
General Hospital No. 6, at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, 
Ga. Although disappointed in r.ot being able to go 
to the front, she found an interesting work at Fort 
McPherson and performed it so well that she earned 
rapid promotion. In a short time she was made 
superintendent of the hospital, which has accom- 
modations for 1,500 patients, and was placed in 
charge of 103 nurses. 

During her stay there, Colonel T. S. Bratton, 
commander of Fort McPherson, presented a loving 
cup to Miss Hannan as an experssion of the love of 
her nurses. 

When the Red Cross, in the Fall of 1918, decided 
to send nurses to Siberia, it selected Miss Hannan 
to organize a company of nurses and take them over. 
She had expressed a choice for service in France, but 
she accepted the commission and left the Fort Mc- 
Pherson hospital. 

As Chief Nurse of the Army Nurse Coi-ps, A. E. F., 
Siberia, Miss Hannan was stationed near Vladivostok. 

Many other women could be singled out but space 
would not permit, so a list of the women most ac- 
tive in war work is given. Some may be missing from 
this list, if so, it is because the names were not 
supplied, and not through any intention to slight any 
person. The matter of getting the names of work- 
ers was the hardest task of the compiler. 
WORKERS 

Samuel Schleimer, Marie Donahue, Vera De Hart, 
Helen Best, Elizabeth Durham, Mary Louise Schlei- 
mer, Elizabeth Salisbury, Dora Deinzer, Rita Boul- 
ger and Helen Grady. 

Mrs. Frank Reed, Mrs. Rush Burton, Mrs. Clarence 
Reed, Mrs. Edna Feller, Mrs. Russell Howell, Mrs. 
Helen Van Deursen, Misses Ruth Smith, Nellie 
Kehoe, Helen Banker, Evelyn Kuhlthau, Mrs. Sidney 



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B. Carpender, Mrs. Henry Seiffert, Miss Ruth Seif- 
fert, Miss Isabelle McCormick, Mrs. Jacob Lipman, 
Mrs. Frank Connolly, Mrs. William Fitzgerald, Mrs. 
Cosgrove, Mrs. Patrick Donahue, Mrs. R. Aheam, 
Mrs. Eugene W. Morris, Mrs. D. W. Donahue, Mrs. 
A. Purcell, Misses Catherine Reed, Josephine Bren- 
nan, Elizabeth Gleason, Edith Yeagher, Mary Ker- 
win, Mrs. Robert E. Ross, Mrs. Jesse Strauss, Mrs. 
Luke Lindley, Mrs. Garrett Dreier, Mrs. Nathan 
Wolfe, Mrs. Herbert Letson, Mrs. Frank Schlesinger, 
Mrs. F. S. Cohen, Misses Janet Loewenstein, Ruth 
Loewenstein, Edith Luther, Leonore Blake, Nellie 
Dwyer, Catherine Howard, Nora Hanlon, Anna Guy- 
ton, Mary Taaffe, Florance Hortwick, Matilda Re- 
gan, Arintha Hyle, Mrs. James Mitchell, Mrs. John 
Clinton, Mrs. Fred B. Tappen, Mrs. A. Peckham, Mrs. 
T. M. Jetter, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Frank Haase. Mrs. H. 
A. Shrader, Clara Hall, Lena Kunzman, Rose Man- 
del, Ray Mandel, Katherine Weigel, Mary Baldwin, 
Elizabeth Baldwin, Ella Halstead, Katherine Runyon, 
Mrs. Samuel Levin, Mrs. John Clark, Mrs. Gallagher, 
Mrs. Sharpe, Mrs Wilson, Mrs. J. A. Van Nest, Ber- 
tha Schorsch, Sylvia Shapiro, Flo Jaques, Miss A. 
Waldron, Mrs. George D. Johnson, Mrs. Desh'er Wil- 
mot, Helen Janeway, J. Trempy, H. Schenck, Mrs. 
George Donahue, Miss Helen Deshler, Mrs. James 
Hughes, Mrs. John Morrison, Helen Colbum, Dorothy 
Applegate, Eleanor Donahue, Gertrude Suydam, 
Alice Burke, Daisy Broffee, Gertrude Broffee, Anna 
Thickstun, Margaret O'Donnell, Lucy Litterst, Julia 
Florance, Jane Runyon, Mrs. Louis Wolfson, Mrs. 
Gershom H. Wheeler, Mrs. R. G. Ballantine, Mrs. J. 
H. Velser, Mrs. S. R. Morris, Mrs. L. H. Messeroll, 
Mrs. T. F. Creighton, Mrs. Floyd Smith, Mrs. Harry 
Enoch, Edith Richardson, Maude C. Reynolds, Mrs. 
William Harding, Mrs. R. B. Moore, Mrs. Thomas 
Dobson, Mrs. Thomas Donahue, Mrs. Edward Glea- 
son, Mrs. Edward Foley, Mrs. Robert Barrett, Mrs. 
John Cortelyou, Mrs. Charles A. Lavere, Misses 
Anna Galligan, Loretta Campbell, Margaret McCor- 
mick, Mrs. William Macom, Mrs. A. L. Smith, Mrs. 
John Curran, Mrs. Weingart, Mrs. Levine, Mrs. R. J. 
Faulkingham, Mrs. S. K. Siver, A. Gregson, Hetty 
Wilcox, Blanche Crenning, Sarah Adler, Mrs. W. 
Frank Parker, Miss Margaret Daly, Mrs. Elmer Mc- 
Murtry, Mrs. Laky, Catherine Tucker, Irene Backus, 
Josephine Atkinson, Elizabeth Coats, Clara Gibbons, 
Elizabeth Travers, Marie Frances, Agnes Kinney, 
Katherine Harkins, Helen Masterson, Dorothy 
Strong, Anna Kansler, Helen Worle, Elizabeth Bar- 
kus, Agnes McGovem, Edna McFadden, Frances 
Fuchs, Bertha Clarke, Florance Manley, Margery 
Keefe, Winnifred Henry, Marjorie McNamara, Es- 
telle Meyers, Catherine Shine, Carolyn Plechner, 
Blanche Johnston, Jennie Delaney, Helen Reilly, 



Annette Martin, Margaret Macom, Elizabeth Sabo, 
Cecilia Kelly, Lillian Bessenger, Elizabeth Deak, 
Helen Donohue, Margaret Courtney, Mollie Jefferies, 
Marie Harper, Mrs. E. A. Brady, Mrs. Frank W. 
Kiessling, Miss Molleta Donahue, Mrs. John P. Wall, 
Mrs. William Waldron, Mrs. James Mershon, Mra. 
M. L. Blake, Mrs. G. F. McCormick, Mrs. J. J. Moni- 
gan, Mrs. P. J. Young, Mrs. James Maher, Elizabeth 
C. Harding, Catherine Bradley, Kate Foyle, Adelaide 
Parker, Helen Williamson, Julia Williamson, Helen 
Morrison, Jessie Morrison, Helen Masterson, Mary 
Delaney, Mary Kelly, Mary Leves, Mrs. Alfred Hall, 
Mrs. William Saunders, Mrs. James McManus, Mrs. 
James O'Hara, Margaret C. Wall, Bessie Lyons, 
Verita McGovem, Marie Frances, Anna Frances, 
Mary McNare, Elsie Dunham, Mary Craven, Leonora 
Craven, Mildred Rota, E. Yackey, Mary Schulster, 
Ray Corsby, Neal Crosby, Miss Kalb, Mrs. James A. 
McGarry, Mrs. Hov^ard Whitehead, Mrs. Martin 
Roth, Mrs. John Ewing, Mrs. Henry Barr, Mrs. H. 
Crawford, Mrs. Charles Cowenhoven, Mrs. James 
Kidney, Mrs. Walter Burton, Mrs. Frank Howcly, 
Mrs. Burckhardt, Mrs. Charles Dodge, Mrs. B. Mas- 
terson, Mrs. Wayne Clark, Mrs. E. H. Webb, Mrs, 
James Dunlap, Mrs. James Horan, Mrs. O'Hara, 
Mrs. John Kinney, Margaret Hannon, Elizabeth 
Smith, Margaret Harkins, Kittie Kane, Annie Gillian, 
Mary Gilligan. 

Mrs. C. M. Daire, Mrs. George L. Snedeker, Mrs. 
Charies White, Mrs. Alexander Merchant, Mrs. J. H. 
Randall, Mrs. F. B. Merritt, Mrs. Rowland, Mrs. C. 
McCrellis, Mrs. H. M. Drake, Mrs. Edward Page, 
Mrs. Nicholas Doyle, Mrs. Cummings, Mrs. Cecil 
Brusie, Mrs. Schuyler, Mrs. William Barlow, Mrs. 
Collins, Mrs. Trittenbach, F. Connors, Mrs. C. E. 
Bruce, Mrs. R. W. Johnson, Mrs. P. M. Joiner, Mrs. 
R. P. Hayden, Mrs. Mrs. T. A. Conway, Mrs. H. F. 
Miller, Mrs. W. J. Fisher, Mrs. M. R. Wame, Mrs. A, 
Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Victor Swain, Mrs Norman Smith, 
Mrs Wilson Van Middlesworth, Mrs. A. Hardenbergh, 
Mrs. James A. Edgar, Mrs. F. A. Nitchke, Miss J. 
Demarest, Mrs. Rose M. Flagg, M. Henderson, Helen 
Loblein, Miss McWhorter, Mrs Alexander Mullen, 
Mrs. Castelano, Mrs. L. C. Stevens, Mrs. B. M. How- 
ley, Mrs. S. M. Christie, Mrs. J. Tuckerman, H. Pit- 
man, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. P. K. Shield, Mrs. H. W. 
Nafey, Mrs. C. S. Atkinson, Mrs. R. S. Sheppard, 
Mrs. Rogers, M. Gebhardt, Mrs. H B. Cole, Mrs. 
Crossley, Sara O. Whitlock, E. Green, Mary Whit- 
lock, E. Daire, Mrs. J. T. Green, Mrs. Frank Whit- 
lock, Mrs. M. Tailby, Mrs. R. P. Hayden, Mrs. H. R. 
Segoine, Mrs. P. R. Ordway, Mrs. F. K. Runyon, 
Mrs. L. P. Janeway, Mrs. H. Miller, Mrs. J. H. Pot- 
ter, Mrs. W. C. Harvey, Mrs. Alfred Tindall. 



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THE EXEMIPTIOM E- 



The work of the local draft board forms an impor- 
tant part in the war history of New Brunswick and 
to ex-Judge J. Kearney Rice, chairman; Elmer E. 
Connolly, secretary, and Dr. E. I. Cronk, medical 
officer, belong much credit for the success achieved 
in the operation of the draft in this city. 

When the war broke out with the Huns and it was 
decided that the draft machinery would have to be 
put into operation to raise an army capable of cop- 
ing with the German hordes and their allies, draft 
boards were formed throughout the country. Quotas 
for the various districts were fixed, and it was the 
duty of the respective draft boards to select the 
men to fill these quotas. 

Under the provisions of the draft law, the mayor, 
city clerk and health officer of each city with a 
population over 30,000 were to act as members of the 
board. In New Brunswick, the late Mayor Edward 
F. Farrington was the chief executive and City Clerk 
Eugene J. McLaughlin, clerk of the city. They were 
formally drafted into service, but then the question 
arose that only men beyond the draft age should 
act as members of the board. As the late mayor and 
the city clerk were both within the draft age they 
subsequently resigned. 

The task of filling their places fell upon Edward 
F. Houghton, who was then sheriff of Middlesex 
county. With reluctance he accepted the resigna- 
tions and lated appointed ex-Judge J. Kearny Rice 
and Elmer E. Connolly to fill their places. 
OFFICES OPENED 

Dr. Cronk threw open his offices on Livingston 
avenue and within a few days after their appoint- 
ment, the members of the draft board were in readi- 
ness to put into operation the draft machinery. 
Elmer Dunham, of the Michelin Tire office, was 
pressed into service as chief clerk of the board and 
was assisted by Miss Helen White, clerk of the health 
department. 

The great national lottery took place in Washing- 
ton and a few days later an official list was received 
here. Immediately the work of tabulating the lists 
and the comparison of the lottery numbers was be- 
gun. Each man between the ages of 1 and 30 years 
who registered at the great national registration day 
was listed and placed in order to be called in his 
turn. 

This was a stupendous task and required the serv- 
ices of a large corps of clerks. Volunteers were 
accepted from the local banks and manufacturies and 
after several days of hard work, the task was com- 
pleted and the call was then awaited for the drafting 
of the flower of the manhood of New Brunswick. 

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Having been fed upon a mental diet of war horrors 
in newspapers and magazines for three years before 
this country entered the conflict, many parents, actu- 
ated by affection for their offspring, at first as- 
sumed a "let George do it" attitude, but patriotism 
soon prevailed over fear, and after the draft had 
been in effect a few months the draft system was 
hailed as a wise institution. 

REGISTERING DAY, JUNE 5 

The draft law became effective May 18, 1917, and 
its enactment was followed immediately by the issu- 
ance of a proclamation by President Wilson, setting 
aside June 5, of that year, as the registration day 
for all male inhabitants of the country, between the 
ages of 21 and 30, inclusive. 

The registration of the males between the desig- 
nated ages will never be forgotten. June 5 was a 
momentous day in the history of the city. The regis- 
tration was conducted without a hitch with the elec- 
tion officers in each district sitting as boards of 
registry, the regulations providing that the men en- 
roll in the election districts in which they resided. In 
New Brunswick the total registration was 4,298 in- 
cluding 1,713 aliens, while in Middlesex county the 
total registration was 19,625. 

Following a round-up of those "slackers" who fail- 
ed to appear on Registration Day, the cards of the 
registrants were numbered serially. There was an 
anxious wait until July, when the lottery took place 
to determine the order in which the registrants 
should be called into service. 

The physical examinations were begun in August. 
The rules required all those seeking exemption to 
file their claims within seven days after the receipt 
of the notice to roport for examination. Issuance of 
the first batch of notices resulted in the draft head- 
quarters being besieged by applicants for exemption, 
men being accompanied by their wives, children or 
aged parents dependent upon them. 

Many of those claims were turned down by the 
draft board who were determined that there should 
be no evasion of the draft law in New Brunswick. 
Under the rules, exemptions were granted to six 
classes: Men indispensable to industries necessai-y 
to the maintenance of the military establishment; 
men with wives, children, parents or other depend- 
ents upon them for support; clergymen and divinity 
students; alien residents who had not taken out their 
first naturalization papers, and Germans; pilots and 
marines in the merchant marine service; criminals 
convicted for felonies and the morally deficient. 

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November 1, 1917, simplified the proceedings and 
made the work run much more smoothly after that 
date. A legal advisory board was formed among the 
lawyers who met night after night at the courti 
house in assisting the registrants in the preparation 
of their questionnaires, which contained all the neces- 
sary forms to make complete claims for exemption. 
FIRST ACTUAL DRAFT 

The first actual draft took place here during the 
first week of September, 1917, when a small contin- 
gent of men was sent to Camp Dix. 

The second great national registration day for 
youths who had arrived at their twenty-first birthday 
since June 5, 1917, took place on June 5, 1918. When 
this registration took place the eligible list of the 
local board was practically exhausted. 

Finally the man-power law was enacted, requiring 
the registration of all males between the ages of 18 
and 45 years, inclusive. This registration took place 
September 12, 1918. Before any of these men were 
called into service, hostilities ceased with the signing 
of the armistice on November 11, 1918. Calls for 
Bolectives had been issued, but were withdrawn when 
it became apparent that Germany was really ready 
to quit. 

The three draft board members gave much of 



their time, energy and even finances for the success 
of the draft in this city. They served without pay 
and during the physical examination of the men 
prior to their induction in the ai-my, they spent 
practically all of their time at the draft board head- 
quarters. 

The local physicians also did excellent work in 
connection with the operation of the draft. They 
examined the many draftees and either rejected or 
qualified them for service. 

A feature of the Draft JBoard work in this city, 
which v;as probably different from that adopted by 
other boards elsewhere, was the keeping of the 
record of every person brought for examination be- 
fore it, showing the results of their physical exami- 
nations, whether exemption was claimed or not. If 
so, on what grounds, and what the results of the 
decisions of the Board were on the different claims 
for exemption. In cases that were contested a full 
report of the testimony was given. A stenographic 
report of the proceedings was kept, which records 
were returned to Washington with the records in 
each particular case. 

The Board was discharged by orders from Wash- 
ington in the Spring of 1919. 







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The Home Defense League was organized on 
March 26, 1917 and was a sort of a clearing house 
for all patriotic movements growing out of the war. 
Its house was New Brunswick's war headquai-ters. 

The League controlled the whole of the Leupp 
building on Albany street, the building having been 
generously placed at the disposal of the League by 
William Leupp. Upon taking it over the League 
made repairs and furnished it- 
It turned over a part of the building to the Red 
Cross, which occupied rooms on the second floor 
until moving into new quarters in the Reed building 
on George street. It also turned over a part of 
the building to the Boy Scouts for their headquar- 
ters. 

The Home Guard was organized and equipped by 
the League to take care of any uprising in this city, 
to assume charge in case of riots or any distur- 
bance growing out of the war. 

The League appropriated $1,000 for war garden 
promotion work. It employed a supervisor for two 
seasons, supplied free seed, engaged teams to plow 
lots, encouraged the planting of vacant plats, pro- 
moted school gardens and purchased tractors for 
farm work. 

It maintained a Farm Labor Employment bureau 
and also a Women's Land Army registration office- 

The League house was the headquarters for many 
campaigns, the office equipment and clerical help be- 
ing loaned for these campaigns, which included the 
following. 

The Liberty Loan campaigns, first and second 
Red Cross War Fund campaigns. War Camp Com- 
munity Fund, Food Administration Pledge Card 
campaign, Salvation Army Fund, Billiard Players' 
Fund, Red Cross Membership Fund, Red Cross 
Christmas Seals Fund- 

The League arranged and financed the Decoration 



Day parade and the Fourth of July athletic meet of 

1917. 

It secured automobiles for various occasions for 
the Transportation Committee. It gave assistance 
to the Y. M. C. A. campaign and looked after the re- 
lief and support of Company H dependants during 
1917. 

It was the headquarters for the Public Employ- 
ment office, for the Soldiers' Welfare Committee, 
Sewing of Soldiers' Shirts Committee, Home Service 
Section of Soldiers' Relief, Return Load Information 
Bureau, Mercy Committee, an agency for the sale 
of Thrift Stamps and Smilage Books; also the gen- 
eral office of the Patriotic Force of New Bi-unswick; 
and had on file the census cards which resulted 
from the canvass of the city by the Patriotic Force. 

The incidental expenses of looking after these 
various activities was borne by the League, which 
was supported by voluntarj' contributions from 
patriotic citizens. 

The amount expended was $23,997.31. The treas- 
urer was Eugene P. Darrow. 

The league terminated its existence on December 
13, 1918, because the emergency that called it into 
being passed and its work was at an end. 

The moral effect of the league in repressing dis- 
order and giving stamina to the city's patriotic en- 
deavors can never be calculated. 

New Brunswick owes a debt of gratitude to Mr. 
William H. Leupp, ovmer of the commodious and 
conveniently located building at 109 Albany street, 
which was, from .the very stare, placed at the dis- 
posal of the Home Defense League free of all cost 
The Leupp building housed more forms of war ac- 
tivity and was the headquarters for more thoroughly 
American movements than any other center. Mayor 
Farrington was its president from the organization 
until the time of his death. 



Permairaemt Elimdl EeMelF Wair Fujumd 



The appeal of the Permanent Blind Relief War 
Fund for soldiers and sailors of the Allies, was 
generously met by New Brunswick. Three benefits 
were given in behalf of these stricken heroes. The 
first, a garden party held at the Drury Cooper resi- 
dence, June 23, 1916, brought in $518.50, but a part 
of this sum was contributed to other war sufferers. 

The next benefit, given in January, 1918, was two 
fold, a Toxti'o Exhibition arranged by the Jersey 
Blue Chapter of the D. A. R- and held for two after- 
noons and evenings in the Chapel of the Second 
Reformed Church, and later four card parties held 

One hundred ten 



simultaneously. The result of these efforts netted 
$503, all of which was contributed to the blind fund. 
The third benefit, a lawn fete and circus, was held 
June 4, 1919, at the War Camp Community Club 
House and grounds. More than 250 persons took 
part in the entertainment. Through their co-opera- 
tion and generosity, and also that of the press, the 
W. C. C. staff, the Merchants, Musicians and other 
artists who were large factors in the undertaking, 
$1,025 was forwarded to the Permanent Blind Relief 
War Fund Committee. The total amount collected 
was $2,046-50- 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



War Camp CominniiuiiniiiLy Seirvac© 



In June, 1918, the New Brunswick War Camp 
Community Service was formed with Dr. William 
H. S. Demarest, president of Rutgers College, as 
general chairman; Miss Molita Donohue, secretary; 
Henry G. Parker, treasurer. The Branch included 
this city. Naval Radio Station, Colonia Hospital and 
Camp Raritan, its headquarters being the property 
of Miss Harriet Anable, 66 Bayard street, formerly 
occupied by her as a Young Ladies' Seminary and 
which she kindly placed at the disposal of the W. C. 
C. S. The building was the most fitting for such use 
in the city as it was adequate for the work, aflford- 
ing sleeping accommodations, rooms for games, read- 
ing, billiard, reception and other facilities. Th« 
ample grounds shaded by great trees, under which 
were placed cosy benches and tables, were most 
nttractive to tired soldiers and sailors and hero hun- 
dreds found rest and recreation during the summer. 

The building was renovated and transformed into 
A place of beauty, the top floor used for dormitory 
purposes, the second for billiard rooms, private 
offices, director's rooms and bathrooms. The first 
floor was turned into reception, reading rooms and 
office while the basement was fitted up for dining, 
kitchen and other purposes. 

August 10th, 1918, the canteen opened with appro- 
priate ceremonies and closed August 12, 1919. It 
was a remarkable success. Special menus were 
eerved at considerably below cost to the men in 
service. The meals were wholesome and daintily 
served by voluntary waitresses from churches and 
organizations of the city. 

Recreational centres were formed in the Summer 
of 1918 and block dances held various evenings. 

This organization not only looked after the inter- 
ests of the men in the service and its problem, but 
also took up the subject of recreational facilities for 
the city's great army of women industrial workers. 
To this end the Girls' Division was formed to permit 



every girl to give service to the nation in soma 
form or other and to take up physical training and 
find congenial recreation. 

If there was one phase of the work which im- 
pressed itself upon the thousands of people in this 
city, it was the community singing. These sings 
were held at Court House Square as well as other 
parts of the city. An orchestra was formed and 
gave concerts Sunday afternoons on the grounds, 
at the School Auditorium and also to the soldiers at 
Camp Raritan and the wounded men at Colonia Base 
Hospital. 

The noble service rendered by the workers of the 
local Branch at the time of the Morgan disaster 
on October 4th and 5th, 1918, will never be forgotten. 
The local workers were among the first on the scene 
to aid the stricken residents of Morgan, South Am- 
boy and vicinity and provided food for more than 
2.000 refugees. Canteens in this city, Metuchen, 
r3rth and South Amboy were opened and provided 
food and shelter. Many refugees were sheltered in 
the local community house and the townspeople aid- 
ed the workers in bringing great stores of provisions 
as well as offering the shelter of their homes and 
placing their automobiles at the service of those who 
needed assistance. 

The W. C. C. S. not only made an indelible impres- 
sion upon the homesick soldier, but stirred the citi- 
zens of the city in community work and developed a 
brotherly spirit among all creeds of people and from 
all stations in life. People in all ranks volunteered 
in the various fields of work and made personal sac- 
rifices time and again in order to do their bit for the 
soldier whether entertaining at the community house, 
at the home, remembering the sick in Colonia or 
soldiers at Camn Raritan. And their efforts earned 
the gratitude of the boys. The hospital committee 
cheered ud wounded men at the hospital and gave 
dinners and entertainments. 




W. C. C. RECEPTION COMMITTEE MAKES THE 
MARRIED MEN FEEL AT HOME. 



One hundred elcjen 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



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At the outbreak of the war between the United 
States and Germany, it was necessary to have pro- 
tection of a nature that could take care of any local 
trouble and looking toward that end the organiza- 
tion known as the Home Guadrs as formed through- 
out the country. 

New Brunswick has never been behind in looking 
after the welfare of its citizens and the very first act 
of the Home Defense League was to organize the 
local unit. At first it consisted of several small 
companies of a captain and twelve men, but after a 
tryout it was found that better results could be 
had by the formation of two full companies, which 
was done October 2, 1917. 

The New Brunswick companies were under the 
direct command of Major R. C. Nicholas, with Percy 
L. Van Nuis as adjutant. The "rookies" were turned 
over to Sergeant George W. Nuttman, Military In- 
structor at Rutgers Preparatory School for prelimin- 
ary training before they were assigned to a com- 
pany. 



Company A was commanded by Captain Leon 
Campbell with Ernest H. Webb and John P. Wall as 
Lieutenants, and George W. Nuttman, as Sergeant 
Company B, Richard Segoine as Captain, Charles 
Malmaros as lieutenant, and Harry B. Carpender, 
Sergeant. 

In August, 1918, the local companies were made a 
part of the New Jersey State Militia Resen'e, and aa 
a result a reorganization took place and Robert C. 
Nicholas was made captain of Co A, and Richard 
Segoine captain of Co. B. The officers and non- 
commissioned officers went to the State camp at 
Sea Girt, N. J., in August, 1918, for a general course 
in military training. 

The companies were on duty at South River during 
ithe riots of July 3-4, 1918, also at South Amboy 
during the Morgan disaster. 

The emergency under which the companies were 
recnaited having ceased to exist, the companies dis- 
banded on March 18, 1919, and the members given 
an honorable discharge by order of the Adjutant 
General of New Jersey. 

DSTER 



A. H. Areeda, C. F. Adams, Corporal H. S. Adams, 
Corporal C. F. Amett, E. Baker, Jas. Barrett, W. J. 
Barrett, J. C. Bogan, D. F. Booth, Corporal A. G. 
Brown, Chester Bunting, R. D. Caldwell, Captain 
L. A. Campbell, First Sergeant H. B. Carpender, 
Corporal S. B. Carpender, L. C. Carr. 

W. H. Colburn, Fred Cole, H. E. Collins, Chas. 
Conklin, J. T. onover, A. B. ummings, C. M. Daire, 

F. De Lorraga, Chas. Deshler, George R. Deshler, M. 
Disbrow, A. N. Dunliam, 1. N. Earle, Frank Eckert, 
Peter Eckert. 

Corporal Clark Ellison, C. E. Gensler, C. H. Glines, 
W. C. Gouch, Corporal W. H. Gulick, R. A. Gulick, A. 

G. Hall, Sergeant A. Hardenbergh, E. F. Hauch, W. 
W. Heath, A. Hendricks, E. A. Holmes, W. H. Johns, 
A. R. Johnson, H. R. Jurgens, S. Kahn, D. J. Kay, 
Wm. P. Kelly. 

F. W. Kilboume, D. M. V. Kinports, E. La Bone, 
S. W. La Bone, W. H. La Bone, H. J. Leach, G. F. 

One hundred twelve 



Leonard, A. A. Lepine, J. V. Lewis, A. McClond, R. 
J. McElheaney, E. L. McGinnis, R. M. McGregor, 
Lieutenant Chas. Malmros, Jr., W. T. Marvin, P. 
Metz. 

J. L. W. Mifflin, Corporal N. T. Miller, A. Moran, 
H. F. Nevius, Major Commander R. C. Nicholas, W- 
C- Nicholas, First Sergeant G. W. Nuttman, Serge- 
ant P. S. Ordway, Jas. Oxley, G. W. Paul, H. Pol- 
ling, A. J. Polon, Corporal C. B. Porter, J. V. Prall, 
J. H. Rastall. 

Roy E. Reed, Russell E. Reed, L. Rhoades, L. K. 
Riggs, Leo Rodney, H. G. Roemer, Roy Rue, A. 
Sands, Jas. E. Scott, Wm. A. Scott, Captain H. R. 
Segoine, Wm. Sliarpless, S. K. Siver, J. B. Smith, 
Scrgt. R. O. Smith, Patrick Soden, Corporal Wm- E- 
Staat, T. M. Steele. 

S. A. Stephenson, L. C. Stevens, C. F. Stone, J. 
H- Sutton, Corporal N. M. Ter^villiger, Corporal A. 
S. Tindell, J. D. Tuni.son, R. S. Van Arsdale ,C. S. 




ENSIGN J. SEWARD JOHNSON 
In command of Submarine Chaser in European Waters 




WAR HAULlOIi AT UKEST 




LIEUT. NEIL McDOUGAL 
Commander of Battery B, 314th F. A., in Meuse-Argonne Offensive 




:il4TH FIELD ARTILLERY GOING TO THE FRONT 
To take part in the Meuse-Argonne Engagement, October, 1918 



N THE WORLD WAR 



Van Buskirk, J. S. Van Middlesworth, C. S. Van 
Nuis, Capt.-Adjutant P. L. Van Nuis, C. S. Voorheea, 
Ueut. J. P. Wall, Carl Walter. 

Jas. Warren, Lieut. E. H. Webb, Chas. W. Werner, 
F. B. Whitlock, Corporal J. D. Wilmot, Sergeant li. 
P. Wilson, R. F. Bogan, Hiram Braisner, John Boy- 
Ian, H. V. Ramage, H. Treptow, S. Staub, R. Roth. 
RESERVES BAND 

Eugene Ross, bandmaster; Jacob Knoll musical 



director; Samuel Irven, drum sergeant; members, 
Jacob Knoll, J. H. Knoll, Samuel Irven, A. Hardy, 
O. Hardy, E. C Hardy, James Howarth, Floyd S- 
Stein, Thomas F. Dolan, M. Schipman, J. F. Nor- 
man, G. S. Norman, Charles Latham, Leonard Lath- 
am, William Weller, L. Sapiro, J. Warner, F. L- 
Bochert, D. L. Armstrong, J. C. Hilliard and Eugene 
Ross. 



New Brunswick's new militia company was mus- 
tered in on Friday evening, August 31, 1917. 

The scene was an inspiring one. The galleries o£ 
the Company H armory on Codwise avenue were 
packed with spectators who had come to give the 
men a Rearty encouragement as they began their 
work. The armory was handsomely decorated with 
the antional colors. 

Captain Willard P. Clark, formerly captain of 
Company H. mustered in the company, Inspector- 
General Paterson being unable to attend as expected. 

The company, 64 strong, was marched out on the 
floor of the armory by Ralph V. M. Goisline, one of 
the most active of its organizers. The command 
was given to open ranks for inspection and then the 
roll was called, each man stepping forward in answer 
to his name. The oath was then administered. 

A. P. Daire, of the Boggs-Janeway Post, G. A. R., 
then made a brief address to the men, in which he 
impressed upon them the dignity of the uniform they 
were about to receive and the importance of the work 
tiiey were to assume. 

The company was then marched into the company 
room, where they held a brief meeting to elect 
officers. Captain Clark presiding. 

Ralph V. M. Gorsline, a Spanish War Veteran, 
was chosen as first lieutenant of the company, and 
George W. Pressler, for several years a member of 



Company H, was made second lieutenant. 

Later Fred Orpen was elected captain, he resigned 
and Ralph V. M. Gorsline became captain. 
The membership of the new company follows: 
John Armstrong, Henry E. Austin, Paul L. E. Ball- 
schmidt, James A. Bates, Herman Bollman, Watson 
H. Boudinot, Jr., William Burke, William Burlew, 
Michael M. D. Cavallo, Carl A. Christiansen, Joseph 
Cochran, Charles W. Culbertson, Vito Chance, Louis 
Du Bois, John Ellison, George C. Fisher, William J. 
Fletcher, Roswell Fulton, Rollin W. Gardner, Clar- 
ence S. Gordon, George H. Gordon, Ralph V. M. 
Gorsline, Edward F. Roben, Frank Grassini, Harold 
T. Holden, Chester R. Holman, Allan Holman, Wil- 
liam T. Hopkins, John A. Horan, Thomas Horrocks, 
William A. Hullfish, Otis W. Hye, Charles Horrocks, 
William E. Jackson, Charles A. Kern, Aldie A. 
Latham, Grover Lehlein, Christopher R. Lyons, 
Frank A. Martin, Walter Merrill, Frank O. Nason, 
Earl J. Owen, Elmer E. Powless, George Pressler, 
Alfred H. Puerschner, Alexande Reisfield, Millad 
F. Ross, J., Chals Schlosser, Joseph Schlosser, 
Thomas C. Shute, August H. Smalley, William 
Smickenbecker, Charles A. Smith, Clayton K. Smith, 
William A. Smith, William A. Space, LeRoy E. 
Stevens, John Smickenbecker, Walter Tausig, How- 
ard A. Teets, Royal Vanderhoef, Harry Van Sickle, 
Fairfield F. Vickery, C Raymond WickofiF. 



Mafta©irnal Suiiygical Dressiirags CommilLli®© 



In October, 1914, a local committee of the National 
Surgical Dressings Committee was formed in New 
Brunswick. The work was carried on by the guilds 
and societies of nearly all of the churches in the city 
by St. Peter's Hospital guild, the New Brunswick 
Girls' Club and other organizations. The Chapel of 
the Second Reformed Church, where a large amount 
of work was done, was used also as a center for col- 
lecting and packing the dressings. The committee 



continued its activity until the spring of 1016. More 
than 30,000 dressings were made, all of old linen and 
cotton on account of the scarcity of new materail. 
The dressings were shipped to New York through 
the courtesy of Johnson & Johnson. 

The work was discontinued later as it became a 
duplication of that of the Red Cross and it was 
deemed best that the greatest and most united effort 
should be put into that organization. 



One hundred thirteen 



NEW BRUNSWICK 







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'BOB" ROSS HAD HIS HANDS FULL LOOKING AFTER THE GLUTTONS 



Beginning on February 1, 1918, and extending for 
a period of six months 70 per cent less wlieat flour 
came into New Brunswick than during tl;e cones- 
ponding period of the previous year. Allowing for 
increase in population, this meant that the people of 
this city had to get along with one-third less flour in 
1918 than in 1917. 

Manufacturers could sell wholesalers but 70 per 
cent of their normal supply; wholesalers to sell re- 
tailers but 70 per cent of their normal demands. 
Wholesalers cculd not seek new customers for wheat 
flour and retailers were not allowed to advertise 
special prices on flour or endeavor to get customers 
to stock up. 

In order to cut down the consumption of wheat 
flour dealers could not sell wheat flour to anyone 
without a corresponding quantity of wheat flour 
substitutes. In other words, for every pound of 
wheat flour bought a pound of wheat substitute had 
to be bought. 

These wheat substitutes were Hominy, com grits, 
com meal, corn flour, edible com starch, barley 
flour, rolled oats, oatmeal, rice, rice flour, buck- 
wheat flour, potato flour, sweet potato flour, soya 
bean flour, feterita flour and meals. 

Dealers had to distribute their stock of flour equit- 
ably among their customers. Every customer to 
receive a fair share of the flour and no hoarding per- 
mitted. To prevent hoarding, dealers could not sell 
in quantities of more than 24% pounds or 49 pounds. 



Those living in rural communities or the country, 
not handy to dealers could buy flour in 49 pounds or 
98 pounds quantities, but had to buy a like quantity 
of wheat substitutes. 

To further encourage the saving of wheat, Mon- 
days and Wednesdays were declared Wheatless 
Days and one Wheatless Meal a day was the order. 

The conservation plans also extend to the bakers. 
After February 24 bakers were unable to buy any 
wheat flour, except whole wheat, unless they bought 
an equal quantity of wheat substitutes. 

The United States Food Administration had absol- 
ute control of the wheat situation, through a 
licensing system, and had the power to put out 
of business those dealers who did not live up to its 
regulations. 

Several of the bakeries of New Brunswick were 
dosed and fined for useing more wheat in their 
bread than the law allowed. To get sugar it was 
necessary to have a card from a mercliant, and the 
amount allowed each person a week was one half 
pound. The head of each home had to sign a blank 
and declare upon honor the amount of sugar on hand. 
Two pounds was all that was allowed to be sold to 
a customer, and at times it was not possible to get 
this. 

Robert E. Ross was the food administrator. The 
task was no easy one, and the citizens owe him their 
deep gratitude for the manner in which he dis- 
charged the duties of his office. 



One hundred fourteen 



IN THE WORLD WAR 




"BILLIE" HOWELL INSPECTS A FURNACE 



On account of the scarcity of coal practically all 
the industiral machinery of New Brunswick halted 
at midnight Thursday, January 18, 1918, in compli- 
ance with Fuel Administrator Garfield's order shut- 
ting down for four days all industries with few ex- 
ceptions, and remained motionless until the follow- 
ing Wednesday morning. 

One exception made in this city was the Wright- 
Martin Aircraft Company, which engaged in the 
manufacture of aircraft engines for the government, 
and therefore one of the most essential industries 
in promoting war work. Even this plant was in- 
cluded in the original order of the Fuel Administra- 
tor, and all except a few departments, were closed. 
Officials, with the Fuel Administrators got in touch 
with the Government, resulting in the order that 
work in all departments both day and night shifts, 
was resumed at once. 

The drastic Garfield order stunned the manu- 
facturers, but except in a few instances, where per- 
mission was granted to finish some work which had 
been started before the regulations became knovim, 
it was universally observed. 

HEATLESS MONDAYS 

All business, except that of war, with a few ex- 
ceptions, was suspended for ten Mondays commenc- 
ing January 20, 1918. The object was to conserve 
fuel, as the coal situation was very serious. These 
days became known as "Heatless Mondays." The 
street lights were not turned on until nine o'clock, 
and then were only sixty per cent lighted. 

No window lights were allowed in the stores and 
on Saturday night all window lights were turned off 
at 10 o'clock. No outside illuminations were allowed. 
ed. 



The following had to close all day on these Mon- 
days: 

All manufacturing plants not engaged on war con- 
tracts. 

All business and professional offices not specific- 
ally exempted. 

All stores except food stores. 

All saloons and bars. Hotels could not serve 
drinks with meals or in private rooms. 
THE EXEMPTIONS 

All food stores could remain open Monday until 
6 p. m. Garages to keep open. Government offices, 
banks, and trust companies, physicians and dentists 
could do business as usual. Drug stores could sell 
drugs and medical supplies only. Restaurants could 
serve food. 

All industries working on war contracts to con- 
tinue working on these contracts on Monday, but 
could not operate any portion of the plant not en- 
gaged in such work. 

This exemption applied to all plants making parts 
of airplanes, equipment for warships, submarines 
and submarine chasers, munitions and medical, surgi- 
cal and biological products for the war department. 

The schools were closed on December 21, due to 
the annual Christmas vacation and the lack of fuel 
in the school buildings, and did not reopen until 
January 22, 1919. 

During the shut down, many of the pipes in the 
various schools were frozen. In several instances 
the pipes burst. 

The city fuel administrator was Lewis Board, he 
resigned and William A. Howell was appointed, who 
served the city until the close of the war. 

One hundred fifteen 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



Soinrnc© 



New Brunswick organized and established a Ser- 
rice Club for the use of the soldiers, sailors and ma- 
rines stationed near the city. 

The rooms in the basement of the Second Re- 
formed Church, at the comer of Albany and George 
streets, were placed at the service of the committee 
by the church, and this church and other churches 
and individuals contributed to the fitting up and fur- 
niEhing of the rooms in a suitable manner for a club 
for the men of the army and navy where they could 
meet for social purposes. 

Many ways of entertainment were afforded. Cur- 
rent magazines and newspapers, always up to date, 
were kept on file. Other reading matter was fur- 
nished by an excellent library of fiction. There were 
tw» pool tables in constant use- Many sets of 
checkers, chess, dominoes and other games were 
always in use. There was also a piano and phono- 
graph. 

It was on April 19th, 1918, at the suggestion of 
Jersey Blue Chapter, D. A. R., that the Service Club 
opened its doors, and 47,753 men in the service par- 
took of its hospitality. 



Every Wednesday evening the young ladies of the 
city were invited by the entertainment committee 
to dance with the men in the service, and many gay 
and enjoyable times were had. Light refreshments 
were always served by different societies of the 
town. The music on these occasions was furnished 
by New Brunswick's musicians, who most gener- 
ously donated their services in a true patriotic spirit. 

The various churches and organizations of the 
sity assisted the club in the line of donations and 
entertainments. 

The club closed its doors on March 31, 1919, after 
a period of great usefulness. 

The members of the Service Club committee were: 

Mr. and Mrs- Eugene P. Darrow, Mrs. Asher At- 
kinson, Miss Helen Deshler, Miss Linette Lee, Mrs. 
M. B. Vail, Mrs. M. A. Blake, Mrs. Adam Best, 
Ambrose Hardenbergh, William Everson, A. S. 
Howell, Fred Hart, William P. Kelley, C. T. Ston^ 
L. C. Stevens, Rev. F. K. Shield, William Schlesin- 
ger, Mrs. Frank LaBarr, Mrs. Nathan Wolfe, Miss 
Mary Taaffe Miss Bessie Taaffe. 



By unanimous vote of the City Commissior. en May 
21, 1918, City Attorney Hagerty was instructed to 
prepare a resolution prohibiting the further sale of 
German language newspapers, magazines or period- 
icals within the confines of New Brunswick. 

W. J. Francke, William H. Everson and John A. 
Manley, composing a committee from the New 
Brunswick Board of Trade, presented the resolution 
adopted at the annual meeting of the Trade Board 
requesting such action, and all three gentlemen spoke 



in support of the measure. 

It was held that the German language press 
greatly retards the assimilation of the German ele- 
ment of our population. 

Commissioner Houghton made the motion, which 
wai seconded by Commissioner Feaster. 

No further action was taken in the matter. Th« 
Board of Education passed a resolution discontinuing 
the course in German, and no new classes were 
formed. 




"TOP KICK DEDE" WELSH DOES A FEW 
STEPS FOR THE BOYS 



One hundred sixteen 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



-<. <X scholastic 
Socialist 




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©misoini (UE^emi Km<B 



Samuel Harry Chovenson, of Millville, N. J., a 
freshman at Rutgers College, was "tarred and 
feathered" on April 23, 1918 by a group of patriotic 
college men. In place of the much used tar, a gal- 
lon of good old New England molasses was poured 
over the young man's anatomy, which was then 
sprinkled with the "stuffings" of two pillows from 
a nearby room. 

Chovenson refused to speak on the Liberty Ijoan, 
and word of his seditious actions rapidly went the 
rounds of the student body, stirring up the patriotrc 
young men, until every one was demanding that 
some action be taken. 

A number of the young men got together and de- 
cided to take things in their own hands. Choven- 
son, who was not a citizen, was seized at Neilson 
Field at four-thirty after he had finished drilling 
with the Rutgers Cadet Corps. He was removed to 
a. room in Ford dormitory where he was guarded 
until nine-thirty. At that hour the young men be- 
gan flocking to George street near the Johnson and 
Johnson plant. In a lew minutes' time a group of 
four hundred men was present. Chovenson wa^ 
quietly removed to the field along the canal bank 
opposite Neilson Field. 

Here one of the young men announced that there 
was to be no mob violence. While the crowd waited, 
the committee in charge stripped Chovenson of his 



Rutgers Cadet Corps uniform, and, leaving him with 
nothing but a pair of running pants, began to paint 
him with the molasses. Not a part of his body wa« 
left uncovered, the sticky mass of "molasses and 
feathers" being applied with great fervor. 

At a given signal four husky young men shoulder- 
ed a plank with Chovenson, who was blind-folded, 
as their burden, and headed the parade down George 
street. At every comer new recruits were added 
until, by the time the procession reached Albany 
street five hundred men were in line. Signs were 
carried at the head of the line bearing the inscrip- 
tions, "He's a Bolsheviki." He is against the Liber- 
ty Loan and the U. S. A.," and "This is what we do 
with Pro-Germans." The procession moved along 
George street in a very orderly manner, the curbs 
being crowded with people from the theatres who 
were demanding more severe punishment ior the 
offender. 

Numerous soldiers were spectators and were es- 
pecially anxious to get to the "tar and feathered" 
young man. The line moved to George and Liberty 
streets, where it counter-marched to George and 
Albany. At this point the blind was removed and 
Chovenson was allowed to go free. Setting out at 
a pace only a frightened man can take he headed 
for his boarding place on Commercial avenue, and 
that was the last seen of him in New Brunswick. 



Red Flag Lowered ^t SfteMomi 



Acting upon information to the effect that the 
Socialist colony, known as the Fellowship Farm, at 
Stelton, and the Ferrer Modem School colony near- 
by were flying red flags instead of the Stars and 
Stripes a company of determined young men from 
New Brunswick, mounted on horseback, visited the 
colonies, November 21, 1918, and demanded the re- 
moval of the objectionable emblems. 

The patriotic demand was complied with in both 
cases and the red flags came down without a resort 



to force, which undoubtedly would have been em- 
ployed had a refusal been met with. 

Those who engaged in the visit to Stelton said: 
"This was just a little patriotic affair similar to some 
others which need attention in this section. If the 
red flags are again hoisted at Stelton there will be 
less gentleness shown. 

"The purpose of the whole affair is to keep New 
Brunswick and the surrounding district free from an- 
archy, extreme Socialism and revolution." 

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Map showing starting line Sept. 26; ground won in steady fighting by Oct. 
81; the swift advance after th German line was broken, Nov. 1, until the armis- 
tice, Nov. 11, 1918. Arrows indicate routes taken by the various divisions. 



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Intensely gi-ipping is the storj' telling of the glory 
which the soldiers of New Brunswick earned for 
themselves, as members of the Seventy-eighth Divi- 
sion, which was trained at Camp Dix, N. J. 

Among the first of the National Army soldiers 
to start out for the battle fields of France, the New 
Jersey troops sailed on May 19 and 20, 1918, from 
a number of different United States ports. 

One of the vessels carrying members of the 78th 
Division ran into some submarines off the Irish 
coast which caused no little excitement. 

The Seventy-eighth Division landed in three dif- 
ferent English ports, Livei-pool, Southampton, Lon- 
don, from may 30 to June 6. These were the days 
when the Germans were smashing their way down 
past the Chernin des Dames and through the Mame 
pockot toward Paris. The 31 1th Regiment, of which 
the New Brunswick boys were a part, arrived in 
Liverpool on May 31, and crossed the channel be- 
tween June 3rd and 12th. 

Arriving in France the division trained with the 
British Expeditionary Forces for two months, and in 
August moved into the American sector, acting as 
reserve for the First Coi-ps in the St. Mihiel offen- 
sive September 12 to 16. 

It was then placed in the front line, relieving the 
Second and Fifth Divisions, and remained in the 
Limey sector with the Fourth Corps of the American 
First Army until October 4. During this time the 
division kept up continuous aggressive patroling until 
relieved from the line. 



On the night of October 15-16, it relieved the 
Seventy- seventh Division and thereafter remained in 
the Meuse-Argonne offensive until November 5. On 
November 2 the division occupied the Bois des Loges 
and thereafter made a rapid advance of over twenty- 
one kilometers, during the course of which the towns 
of Beffu et le Morthomme, Britquenay, Boult-aux- 
Bois, Belleville-sur-Bar, Germont, Authe, Brieulles- 
sur-Bar and Verrieres were occupied. 

When the First American Army was formed and 
preparations were made for the first great American 
offensive, tlie Seventy-eighth Division was in reserve 
near Arras. 

In June 18, the division was to take over the sec- 
tor in front of the Arras-Sambrai road. 

Major General McRae received orders on July 18, 
1918, to entrain for the American sector near Neuf- 
chateau and there the plans for the St Mihiel of- 
fensive were learned. "The First Army (U. S.) will 
reduce the St. Mihiel salient," the order began. 

The troops moved into their resei-ve position dur- 
ing the night of September 11, prepared to jump into 
the attack at any point where it might be necessary. 
The 78th Artillery, meanwhile, under command of 
Brigadier General Clint C. Heam, was in support of 
the 90th Division in the Puvenelle Woods near the 
Moselle River. 

Before noon on the day of the attack word came 
back that the St. Mihiel salient had been reduced 
and that the assaulting American troops had all 
reached their final objective before night and ahead 

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of schedule. Thus the Lightning Division, as tlie 
78th was caleld, lost its chance to get into the 
attack. 

It got its chance two days later, however, when 
word came to relieve the 2nd and 5th Division, which 
was a difficult task. The Division had never had 
the advantage of any experience in a quiet sector. 
As a whole, it had never been under fire. The relief 
required the taking over of a new and unorganized 
sector from two divisions at a point where there was 
danger of counter-attack, and where, in any event, 
the enemy, even if constantly on the defense, was 
very active. 

The division faced four enemy divisions — the 10th, 
31st, 123d and 88th. 

The 78th's casualties in the Limey sector totaled 
2,107 in seventeen days, of whom 329 were killed or 
died of wounds. Only two men died of disease, in 
spite of the rainy weather which continued almost 
the entire stay — an indication of the excellent physi- 
cal condition and ability of the men to endure hard- 
ships. 

LIEUT. M'DOUGAL IN COMMAND 

A week after the start of the first phase of the 
Argonne-Meuse battle, the 78th was ordered to be 
relieved in the Limey sector. The relief was begun 
on the night of October 3-4 and completed the fol- 
lowing night. At the same time the 153d Artillery 
Brigade and the 303d Ammunition Train were re- 
lieved in the Puvenelle sector, where they had been 
holding a line separated from the remainder of the 
division. 

It was during this battle that the Captain of Bat- 
tery D, 314 F. A., 80th Division, was killed and the 
command was taken over by Lieut. Neil McDougal, 
who acted as commanding officer until the discharge 
of the men, after their arrival in the United States. 

On October 10 the division moved into the Argonne 
and the Division P. C. was established at Varennes. 
Infantry replacements to the number of i,400 were 
received at this time. The majority of these were 
of good calibre, but lacking in both training and ex- 
perience. The artillery brigade rejoined the division 
on October 13. The Division P. C. had moved from 




UEUT. WALTER JONES SENDS IMPORTANT 
MESSAGE 

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Varennes to Le Menil Ferme at midnight, October 
12. 

Lieutenant Walter Jones was in charge of tlie divi- 
sional message center during this period. 

On October 15 the 78th Division was ordered to 
relieve the 77th Division and the same night at eight 
o'clock a telephonic order directed an attack by tne 
division, to be started at 6 A. M- on October lo. 

The attack was made as ordered, the 309th Infan- 
ti-y, with two battalions, advancing on the Bois de.^ 
Loges from the southeast, through mud at times 
knee deep. The 310th, whose relief was delayed, 
came up and joined the 309th and got a foothold in 
the Bois des Loges. The 311th Infantry had got into 
position in time to attack through the mist at 6:35 
A. M. without any definite information as to where 
the enemy's line was. Some prisoners were taken 
in the town of Chevieres, and the advance continued 
to the Aire at the north and west of the to\\Ti. Some 
troops were pushed across the stream at this point 
against heavy machine gun fire. The 312th Infantry, 
when it reached Grand Pre, found the troops of the 
Seventy-seven ;h Division had attacked, and the re- 
lief was completed while the fighting went on in 
the southern part of the to\vn. 

"When the Second Battalion of the 312th Infantry, 
under Major Mallory, advanced to relieve the 
Seventy-seventh Division units in the town of Grand 
Pie," says the operations report, "the enemy was 
found to occupy the whole citadel and was still in 
partial possession of the rest of the town. In some 
of the houses the enemy held the upper stories and a 
sort of perpendicular warfare ensued. Before the 
relief could be completed at 11:15, thirty-four pris- 
oners had been taken and it took almost two days 
of house-to-house fighting to complete the capture 
ot the lower part of the town. Further west, the 
First Battalion of the 312th Infantry, under Major 
Debevoise, an a machine gun company, detailed as 
a liaison detachment to the Thirtyeighth French 
Corps, had forded the river in the morning under 
heavy machine gun and artillery fire, established 
liaison with the French and dug in along the Grand 
Pre-Tarmes road." 

Daily attacks were made for several days follow- 
ing the relief. A new attack was planned for the 
twenty-third. The plans called for heavy destruc- 
tive fire and a concentration of non-persistent gas on 
some of the points to be attacked. A smoke screen 
was to be laid down to cover two converging attack* 
from Grand Pre and Talma Hill. 

While the full objective set for this attack was 
not reached two of the three points which mad« 
the stronghold of Grand Pree were taken and way 
opened for the success which followed- 

CAPT. REED WOUNDED; PERRY KILLED 

With the situation in the vicinity of Grand Pre 
cleared up the First American Army was in a posi- 
tion to begin the second phase of the attack — th« 



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culminating triumps of the American Army, which 
brough'; our troops to the doors of Sedan. The mis- 
sion of the First Army Corps in the attack was to 
flank the enemy out of the Bois de Bourgogne by 
envelopment from the riglit and to connect with the 
French at Bouitaux-Bois. The Bois de Bourgone, 
according to the plans from the artillery preparation, 
was to be made untenable for the Germans by the 
use of mustard gas. Our troops were to advance so 
as to always face the Bois de Bourgogne, and they 
were ordered to pursue vigorously any withdrawal 
of the enemy. 

Information obtained at this time tended to show 
that the morale of the German army was deteriorat- 
ing. Prisoners gave this advice and repeated identi- 
fication of new divisions and of the intermingling of 
new divisions seemed to carry out this idea. 

A captured document taken by the 78th Division 
gave very important information on the subject of a 
possible retirement. It gave detailed instructions 
for the withdrawal of a part of the Gei-man forces 
to the vicinity of Briquenay, and showed the disposi- 
tions of the German troops to be made in case of 
such a withdrawal. A prisoner taken on October 23 
reported that a general withdrawal was in progress. 

The plans for the attack on November 1, called 
for reaching the northern edge of the Bois des Loges 
on the third day, with the division pivoting on Grand 
Pre. The second objective was a ridge two Kilo- 
meters north of Briquenay. Contact with the French 
was to be established at Boult-aux Bois. The artil- 
lery preparation for the attack was on a large scale. 

Captain Charles H. Reed was seriously wounded 
and Spencer Perry of Milltown killed during this 
action. 

The great concentration of artillery and machine 
guns was unable, however, to affect substantially the 
machine gun nests in the Bois des Loges, such was 
the natural strength of the positions there. In con- 
sequence the Second and Third Battalions of the 
309th Infantry, under command of Captain Jones 
and Major Segarra, and the First and Third Batta- 
lions of the 310th were successful in beating off 
one serious counterattack. This cleared the way for 
a flanking movement from the northwest against the 
woods. 

Both regiments were halted to reorganize their 
units before starting the pursuit. At 10:30 A. M- 
ten companies of the 309th, under Major Segarra, 
and ten of the 310th, under Major Ray, supported by 
trench mortars, thirty-seven machine-guns and 
machine-gun companies, moved out of the Bois des 
Loges. All companies were so reduced by losses 
that the total of the twenty companies was only the 
equivalent of the fighting strength of a full "--'" 
lion. They flanked a few enemy machme gunners 
about noon and advanced steadily northward with 
only occasional slight machine gun resistance until 
about 5:30 P. M. 



On November 3 Briquenay was taken. The Ger- 
mans were moving out so fast that the First Ai-my 
Corps decided upon a pursuit in motor trucKS. -. 
detachment of the 312th Infantry, staited this pur- 
suit, but found after going some distance, ti^at the 
Germans had undermined the roads and they were 
forced to abandon their ti-ucks and march. On ine 
following day the 78th Division was ordered to 
withdraw from the line as soon as connect.on was 
assured between the 77th Division of tne right 
and the French on tne leil. 

So hasty was the Gei-mans retreat that French 
civilians were left in all the towns that the "ibui 
Division occupied on November 3. Further informa- 
tion was gained concerning the speedy character of 
the German's course, from the French people. 
FORTY MACHINE GUNS CAPTURED 

On November 5, the 42nd (Rainbow) Division was 
ordered to relieve the 78th Division, less artillery, by 
passing through the lines of the Lightning soldiers. 
The following day the divisions marcned back past 
the scenes of the three weeks' fighting, and by 
November 11, after intermediate stops, the unit was 
at St. Menehould, where it was to await transporta- 
tion to a training area. 

Nine enemy divisions faced the 78th durmg its 
operations on the Argonne front. They were the 
195th Division, the 76th Resei-ve Division, me 2d 
Landwehr Division, the 45th Reserve Division, the 
103d Division, 203d Division, 202d Division anu uie 
14th Resei-ve Division. Our troops captured 322 
prisoners, of whom si.x were officers and thirty-sue 
non-commissioned officers. 

During the operations before November 1, about 
forty machine guns were captured in addition to a 
large number destroyed. After November 1, the ad- 
vance was so rapid and the division left the area so 
soon after its withdrawal that not even a fair 
estimate of the captures could be made. One regi- 
mental operations officer reports that he personally 
saw six 77-mm. guns abandoned on the roads. Some 
horses, wagons and lorries were also abandoned. A 
pioneer dump was captured between Authe and 
Authuche, and at Verrieres a railroad yard ^ 
much equipment, cars and engines, a storehouse full 
of clothing, blankets, horse equipment, macnine gun 
ammunition and parts, a 220-mm. shell dump, a saw- 
mill and planing mill. There was also one abandoned 
airplane. A large amount of artillery ammunition 
was captured, scattered over the area in small piles 
along the roadsides. 

The battles of the Argonne-Meuse was America's 
greatest national acnievement of the war, the culmi- 
nation of all her previous preparations, it cut the 
German line of communication, prevented the orderly 
withdrawal of one-third of the German Army, 
threatened Germany with immediate invasion and 
forced the signing of the Armistice. 

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THE ARTILLERY 

•'Splendid fighters, 100 per cent efficient camou- 
fleurs, and the luckiest brigade in the A. E. F.I" 

That is the way Brigadier General C. C- Heam, 
commanding the 153rd artillery brigade, summed up 
the overseas work of the New Jersey and Western 
New York boys of the 307th, 308th and 309th field 
artillery regiments of the Seventy-eighth division, to 
which a great number of New Brunswick boys were 
attached. 

To lay down a barrage lasting from sunrise until 
9 o'clock in the evening, on October 29, 1918, during 
which 40,000 rounds of ammunition were fired by the 
307th and 308th regiments, all the time under heavy 
hostile fire, but without the loss of a singel man, was 
a feat of this brigade which was regarded overseas 
as one of the finest exhibitions of the science of 
camouflage during the entire war. General Heam, 
in speaking of the barrage said: 

"We were preparing the way for the great drive 
in which the Seventy-eighth opened the German lines 
at Grand Pre. The two regiments of light artillery 
were in action all day, sending over to the Huns ap- 
proximately 40,000 shells. German air scouts sailed 
over our lines all day, in an effort to find out our 
guns, but so excellent was the camouflage science 
and discipline that they failed to locate a single bat- 
tei-y and, incredible as it seems, we came through 
that day without the loss of a man." 

The fact, probably more than any other American 
artillery brigade, they practiced scientific camouflage 
in the field, had much to do with the low casualties 
of the brigade. During many weeks of fighting on 
several fronts and with different divisions, they lost 
in killed only one officer and twenty-five men. 

"The spirit of the brigade was magnificent," said 
General Heam. "There was never any duty that 
they cnosidered too arduous, too dangerous. In all 
their service abroad, there was not a single incident 
where a member of the brigade showed the white 
feather. 

"No matter how long or how hard the duties re- 
quired of them, those boys would never admit they 
were tired. They worked together without jealousies 
or bickering between regiments, and they co-operated 
in a splndid manner with every division with which 
they sei-ved." 

The Lightning cannoneers were with their own di- 
vision only during the great drive in the Argonne. 
They helped blast a gap in the Hun lines in the drive 
at the St. Mihiel salient, for the Ninetieth division, 
August 28. It was October 13 when they finally 



joined the Seventy-eighth division in the Argonne, 
supporting their ovm doughboys and machine gun- 
ners during the terrific fighting around and beyond 
Grand Pre, until November 8. They were then at- 
tached to the Forty-second division, transferred to 
the Sixth division on the morning of November 9, 
and on the morning the armistice was signed were 
marching to join the Fifty-fifth division of the sec- 
ond army. For a month after the annistice, they 
were on the Verdun front until the Anny of Occupa- 
tion advanced. On December 10, they were sent 
back to their own di\i.-;ion again in the Twenty-first 
training area, v>here they remained until ordered 
home. 

THE START FOR HOME. 

In the last week of April, 1919, the division be- 
gan to move to embarkation camps. The artillery 
and machine gun units sailed from Marseilles and 
the other units from Boidcaux, arri\ing in tlie United 
States at intervals in May and June. 

Out of 93 Distinguished Sei-vice crosses awarded 
to men of the 78th Division, in which there were 
11,806 New Jersey men and 11,064 New York 
troops, 43 went to men from this State. In addition 
the only Congressional Medal to be received by a 
member of this organization went to a Jei«»yman, 
Sergeant William Sawelson, deceased, company 4, 
312th Infantry, whose home was in Harrison, Hud- 
son County. 

The division had a total of 947 men killed, 163 
died of wounds, 195 missing in action, xz captured 
and 5,715 wounded, making a grand total Oj. (,'J32. 
It participated in two major operations, namely the 
reduction of the St. Mihiel salient and the Argonne 
offensive- The casualties of the New Jersey men 
and the New York men in the division were about 
on a par in each of these great battles. New Jersey's 
was 2,698 and New York's 2,744. The respective 
fignires for each of the two operations follow: 
Mihiel, New Jersey, 830; New York, 846; Argonne, 
New Jersey, 1,868; New York, 1,898. 

Of this number. New Jersey men to the total of 
138 were killed or died of wounds at St. i</lu^~.i, and 
New York's total was 149; the Argonne figures were: 
New Jersey 285; New York 351. 

The State of New Jersey has every reason to be 
proud of the part played by the soldiers of th 
command. Their unquestioning loyalty at all times, 
their spirit of sacrifice and self-negation under the 
strain of battle and their unsurpassed gallantry in 
action was .an inspiration to all. 



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CAPT. REED V/KITES ABOUT THE 311th INFT. 
Chatel Guyon, Puy de Dome, 
Jan. 14, 1919. 
Dear J. P.: 

Now that I'm in the hospital and have a little time 
on my hands I thought likely that you wouldn't mind 
hearing something of the 311th Infanti-y, especially 
as the papers don't seem to know that it exists. 

I guess you know all about the organization ol 
the regiment and its work at Camp Dix, but I'll tell 
you a little anyway. 

It was organized early in September, 1917, with 
Col. M. B. Stokes as regimental Commander and 
most of the rest of the officers from the first Officers 
Training Camp at Madison Barracks. 

The first men to join the regiment were the 5Sfc 
men on September 5th. To these were added about 
100 regular army men as instructors. Then on 
September 22d we received 2,500 men, all from New 
Jersey south of New Bininswick, while the north 
Jersey men went to the 312th Infantry. 

After this, one draft followed another very quickly 
for as fast as the men were trained they were 
shipped away. This can best be shown by the fact 
that Co. M of which I was a member, handled nearly 
1,200 men between September, 1917, and April, 1918. 

All during the winter of 1917-1918 we followed 
regular training schedule with no prospect of change, 
but early in the Spring came rumors of overseas 
departure. These became more and more certain 
and the early weeks of May found us equipping the 
last few men, packing supplies and making other 
preparations. 

We got under way on the 18th, part of the regi- 
ment not leaving until the 20th, and from ports 
ranging from Philadelphia to Boston. My part of 
our battalion sailed from Boston on the morning of 
the 20th. We went up to Halifax and laid there 
two days, giving us a fine chance to .see the scene 
of the great explosion. 

We left Halifax on May 23rd in a convoy of 17 
vessels. We had a quiet trip both on the score of 
weather and submarines or "tin-fish" as the men 
called them. We had a little fluriy one evening when 
one of the destroyers dropped a couple of depth 
bombs on a submarine that came up in the middle 
of the convoy by mistake, but we were not attacked. 

We landed at Tilbury Docks, Gravesend, Eng., on 
June 5th and immediately entrained for Dibgate 
Camp near Folkestone, where we remained until 
June 12th, giving us a chance to see this famous 
summer resort, several aviation fields and some of 
us Canterbury and Canterbury Cathedral. 



On June 12th we crossed to Calais where we 

arrived about 4 o'clock and were warmly received by 
an air raid the same evening. We were in a rest 
camp at Calais for a couple of days, then loaded into 
freight cars, the kind you've read about "8 chevaux 
40 hommes" and rode for about 12 hours. 

We landed in a little town about 100 inhabitants 
by the name of Verval, half way between Boulogne 
and St. Omar, near the Hazebrouck salient. Here we 
started our intensive training under British super- 
vision. On July 19th we again entrained for a 10 
hour ride, which really is p.'jout what ought to be a 
2 hour one. We detrained and after a hike arrived at 
Temas, which is near St. Pol, which at ore time 
was British G. H. Q. Here we continued our training 
by means of division manouvers. During these prob- 
lems I met Henry Smith of Redmond street, and had 
a short talk with him and saw Dudley Watson 
several times, but not to speak to. It was here also 
that Frank Morris of Metuchen, who was with the 
Canadian forces, paid a visit to several of the 
Metuchen men in Co. G. of the regiment. Finally 
we ran a practice relief in a trench system back of 
Arras. It was during this operation that we were 
inspected by King George. 

On Aug. 12th we again moved, this time to Fos- 
seaux, with the purpose in view of going into a quiet 
sector in front of Arras-Cambrai road, but our 
friend, the Hun, pulled back due to an attack on the 
south and before arrangements were again made we 
were ordered south to the American sector for which 
we were all duly thankful. 

This time we had a three day ride and if we were 
ever tired of anything we were of that old freight 
train. However our route lay through Amiens, the 
outskirts of Paris, Chateau-Thierry, Chaumont to 
Passavant (Haute Saone) which at least gave us 
something new to look at and in the cases of Amiens 
and Chateau-Thierry a little different idea of war 
than we had before. 

From Passavant we started gradually north to- 
ward the fun. We would march for two or three 
days then rest four or five, then march again, so 
that hy September 5th we were at Courcelles, near 
Chatenois. Here on September 10th we took a 
camion train for the actual front. The trucks were 
Whiites driven by Chinamen and it took 2,000 of them 
to move the whole division. Some sight when they 
all got going. 

We rode from four in the afternoon till six A. M. 
on the 11th when we were dumped out in a woods, 
wet of course, as it was raining most of the time. 

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Here we remained all day. That night we moved 
forward again to another woods, we had no idea 
where we were, but when at 1 A. M. of the 12th 
the barrage for the St. Mihiel drive let loose, believe 
me, we knew we were near something. 

We weren't in the actual drive but were in Corps 
reserve. However, we took over the line of the 2nd 
and 5th Division as soon as they had reached their 
objective, which was daylight on the 16th. 

Our regiment was to the right of Thiacoutr, near 
the village of Vieville-en-Haye. Here we held the 
line until October 5th. During this time we were 
under constant shell fire and had several counter at- 
tacks launched against us, both without results ex- 
cept as to casaulties which were rather heavy. 

My company was relieved by Co. H, and in that 
way I had a short visit with "Skill Waker" who was 
top sergeant. I also heard that Smith was pretty 
badly smashed up and had been evacuated. 

While my battalion was in division reserve I met 
McClosky and heard from Potter who were in the 
307th M. G. Battalion, and also met Russell Morris 
of 15Gth Brigade Headquarters. 

We were in the line here on September 26th for 
the big barrage at the beginning of the Argonne 
Drive. The barrage being of much larger extent, 
tlian the attack in order that Jerry wouldn't know 
the big barrage at the beginning of the Argonne 
Drive. The barrage being of much larger extent 
just where the attack was coming. 

On October 4th we were relieved by the 90th 
Division and began our terrible hike to the Argonne. 
We thought we were coming out for a rest but were 
Bent right into a worse scrap. 



We marched all night of the 4th, 5th and 6th, 
then on the 7th had another ride in a camion train 
debarking in the woods near Clermont-en-Argonne. 
Here we stayed till the 11th when we moved forward 
in the Argonne forest and took our position of Corps 
reserve behind Grandpre. 

Our division took over the line from the 77th on 
the night of the 15th and from then on until the 
27th made an attack every morning at day break. 
During this time the Sllth Iniantry aided by the 
312th cleared Grandpre, Talma Fei-me and Hill 204 
on which operations hinged the success of the 1st 
Ai-my offensive of November 1st. 

The fighting on Hill 204 was extremely severe and 
even after capture was exposed to constant shell 
fire. My own company dropped from 145 to 38 men 
in the period from October 25th to November 1st. 

On November 1st we again attacked and reached 
our objective late in the afternoon, immediately 
afterward I was hit by fragments of a shell and have 
been in the hospital ever since. Cos. G. and H. in 
which were many New Brunswick, Metuchen and 
Miiltown boys, were the Companies with mine in the 
attack of Nov. 1st, and they also suffered heavy 
losses. Perry of Milltown was one of those killed. 

I have heard from them that they continued for- 
ward until November 5th, having reached the out- 
skirts of Sedan before being relieved by the 42nd 
Division. 

Think this will give you a bit of an idea of our 
work. 

Sincerely, 

CHARLES H. REED. 




CAPl'AIN REED MEETS RUSSELL MORRIS AND 
GETS ALL THE NEWS FROM HOME 



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History of Company H 

J J 3 Infantry, A. E. F. 



Compiled and written in France by Sergeant George H. Cruttenden and 
Corporal Frederick Unbekant, of Co. H., 113th Infantry, American E. F. 



DEDICATED 

To those members of this Company who made the Supreme 
Sacrifice— who gave "their today that we, who survive, may 
have our tomorrow." 



ARTHUR LORENZ, killed in action, Alsace, August 21, 1918. 
JAMES E. MADDRAH, killed in action, Alsace, August 21, 

1918. 
HAROLD S. WEST, killed m action, Alsace, August 21, 1918. 
ERNEST C. MOHL, killed in action, Alsace, August 21, 1918. 
JOHN I. BOYD, killed in action, Argonne operations, Octo- 
ber 12, 1918. 
ARTHUR L. GOWEN, killed in action, Argonne operations, 

October 16, 1918. 
JOSEPH PATRICK, killed in action, Argonne operations, 

October 16, 1918. 
WALTER K. WILLIAMS, killed in action, Argonne operations, 

October 16, 1918. 
WALLACE J. BRYMNER, killed in action, Argonne opera- 
tions, October 24, 1918. 
VITO NISTICO, killed in action, Argonne operations, October 

25, 1918. 
ANDREW KOLLAR, died of disease, October 4, 1918. 
JOHN E. ROSS, died of disease, October 4, 1918. 
LLOYD J. HARTMAN, died of disease, October 4, 1918. 
JOHN H. PETERMAN, died of disease, October 5, 1918. 
HOWELL B. TETTERMSR, died of disease, October 7, 1918. 
JOSEPH E. GRIFFITH, died of disease, October, 1918. 
ANTHONY MUSCAL, died of disease, October, 1918. 
GEORGE H. WOOD, died of disease, October, 1918. 
WILLIAM C. HAMPTON, died of disease, October, 1918. 
RAYMOND S. TICE, died of disease, October, 1918. 



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TRAINING IN THE STATES 

On March 28, 1917, nine days before Cong^ress 
formally declared that a state of war existed between 
the United States and Germany, the 2nd Regiment, 
N. G. N. J., was called into service. 

After a period of outpost duty, the regiment waa 
ordered to Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala., to train 
for service over-seas and arrived at the Southern 
cantonment, October 3rd. Two hundred and fifty 
men were to constitute a full war strength company, 
according to war depai-tment orders, so immediately 
the work of the re-organization began. On October 
12th, companies F. of Elizabeth, H. of New Bruns- 
wick and M. of Somerville, were consolidated, form- 
ing Co. H. of the 113th Regiment of Infantry, 29th 
Division, U. S. Army, with Charles C. Gordon aa 
Captain. 

Following the completion of the reorganization, Co. 
H. followed the schedule of intensive training as 
laid down by the Division Commander. Every mem- 
ber of the Blue and Gray who outlived the war and 
returned home, will never forget these long eight 
days spent in drill; days when we marched and 
doubled time over cotton fields with a hot southern 
sun bathing all in prespiration. Those were the 
days we longed for the cool breezes of Jersey. In 
November, Captain Gordon was transferred to Wash- 
ington and Lieutenant Kollar, formerly of M. Co., 
assumed command. A divisional hike to Talledaga, 
Ala., took place during this month. It was bitter 
cold, practically the whole hike, quite a contrast to 
the scorching days experienced during the early days 
of our stay in Alabama, but nevertheless, the typical 
Dixie country, through which we passed, with its 
beautiful, stately mansions and its humble little 
homes sheltering a colored family with a dozen black 
kinky-haired picanninies were all a novelty to us 
and thoroughly enjoyed. Practically every man in 
the company had a camera of some description with 
him on this hike and they snapped pictures right and 
left. To a casual obser^'er, we must have appeared 
as a staff of newspaper men taking pictures for the 
journals. Captain Harry O. Warren was assigned to 
the command of the company this month. 

On a few days after we had finished our sixty 
mile march, Co. H. moved their tents to the rifle 
range, and became a service company for the regi- 
ment, which was to shoot for the following two 
weeks. During this time the inclement weather and 
the frigid winds caused the boys much suffering and 
all faith was lost in the "Sunny South" we had so 
often read about in geographies and fiction. Work- 
ing in the butts, raising, lowering and marking the 
targets was a job that almost froze our hands. Act- 
ing as scorers on the line was even worse for there 
we were subject to the full blast of the wind and 
driving rain, icicles formed on our campaign hat? 
and bolts froze in the rifles. At intei-vals in the 

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firing we passed the time away and incidentally got 
warm by s^liding on ice covered ponds. The nativea 
could not understand why it could get so cold in their 
State of Alabama and were greatly surprised. How- 
ever, they were due to have a greater surprise, when 
later, snow fell and covered the ground with a 
blanket of white. 

It was about this time that rumors of the Division 
sailing for France by Christmas was spread through- 
out the Company. It was the cause of much betting 
and excitement and each day brought in a report 
such as "we must be going to move, they're taking 
the shoes off the mules," or "it's official, take it from 
me, for Captain Newell (Supply Co.) told some 
officers and a Sergeant in F. Co. over-heard him and 
told me," and so it went on, most of the men grasp- 
ing at each bit of news and feeling more elated 
every day. But Christmas came, the first one away 
from home and it found the company still in its two 
long rows of tents in Camp McClellan. Christmas 
week was a week of continual holidays. The mess 
hall was decorated with greens and paper bells and 
the great day was celebrated by having an excellent 
dinner, followed by speeches, singing, dancing and 
a general good time. After the seven days of rest 
and enjoyment, the Company again went back to the 
old grind. 

Particular stress was laid in the drilling of the 
bayonet, grenade, assault formation and protection 
against gas. Competent English and French instruc- 
tors, who had seen active service, brought the les- 
sons of the war back to us and the work proved to 
be interesting. 

On April 22, 1918, the second divisional hike start- 
ed. Gadsden, Ala., about 35 miles from camp, was the 
destination. Good weather favored us on this hike, 
and we saw the South in all the gloi-y of spring, quite 
unlike the last hike in December, when everything 
Vs-as barren and bleak and the miles passed unnoticed, 
except by the few always present "crabbers," who 
complained of their heavy pack. The people of Gads- 
den welcomed us royally. Their homes were always 
open for the boys in O. D. and one night a block 
dance was given in our honor. On the homeward 
trip, Co. H. lead the Division one night in a 22 mile 
hike and not a man failed to complete the gi-uolling 
march. In fact, the entire regiment did wonderfully 
well and General Barber, Brigade Commander, con- 
gratulated us on our excellent morale and endurance. 

May 13th, the company went into the practice 
trenches for two days and nights; gas masks were 
carried, steel helmets worn and everything in the 
trenches was made as realistic as possible, even to 
living in dug-outs, the establishment of sniper and 
machine gun po.sts and a night raid in which lachry- 
matory gas bombs were used. In fact conditions as 
nearly as possible like those to be encountered in 
active service were prevalent. 



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Transfers, appointments to O. T. C. and men 
chosen for immediate service overseas had so 
dwindled the company that many replacements were 
needed to fill it up to war strength again. The week 
of May 20th brought many drafted men to Co. H., 
they came for the most part from the States of 
Connecticut, Michigan, Oklahoma and Texas, and 
once more we had four full platoons. It was at this 
time known to all that our stay in the U. S. was 
limited and a happier bunch could not have been 
found in all of Uncle Sam's camps. Our final days 
at Camp McClellan were filled with inspections and 
reviews. On June 5th we bid adieu to the camp 
which for eight long months had been our homes. 
The day all of us had patiently waited and longed 
for had arrived at last. After noon mess, the 3rd 
Battalion and companies G. and H. fell in and pro- 
ceeded by the 114th regiment band, marched for the 
last time through the camp's streets. At 2 :00 P. M. 
companies G, and H. entrained at divisional head- 
quarters and soon after the train started in motion, 
amid cheers and "Good-byes" of the many specta- 
tors. As we slowly rolled past our old drill field 
the boys howled and cheered and acted like a bunch 
of kids just finishing their school year. No one but 
the officers knew where we were bound for and all of 
us thought that our destination would be Tenafly, 
New Jersey, at Richmond, Virginia, tho, we all were 
disappointed on finding out we were being taken to 
Camp Stuart, Newport News, Virginia. 

Early on the morning of the 7th, the train came 
to a stand still at the camp and the men awoke from 
their sleep to find long rows of barracks surrounding 
them in all directions. 

Most of the time at the embarkation camp was 
occupied by the equiping of the men and inspections. 
It was just one week after our arrival in Camp 
Stuart that we left i^-June 14tk, 1918 at 1:30 A. M. 
Troops marched silently through the city and even 
though it was in the wee small hours of the morning, 
a few people were out to wish us "Good-bye" and 
"Good-luck." At dawn after a rather long hike 
interrupted by frequent halts, we reached the dock 
and passed from the soil of the good old U. S. for 
nobody knew how long. The wonderful organiza- 
tion — the American Red Cross — was on hand with 
its rolling coffee wagons and distributed hot coffee 
and sandwiches to the chilled, hungry boys. The 
company boarded the "Pennsylvania" a James river 
excursion boat, and after a half hour sail, we were 
landed on a pier at Norfolk. A short time later a 
huge transport painted battle-ship gray and mount- 
ing four six inch guns, steamed up and made fast 
to the landing. The Princesss Matoika, the name of 
this vessel which was to carry us over the seas, was 
a foi-mer German vessel, commandeered by the 
Japanese Government, and loaned by them to the 
U. S. for the transportation of its soldiers. After a 



long tiresome wait, H. Company fell in, executed 
"Right by File" and as each man gave his name and 
rank to an officer he ascended the gang plank and 
followed his sailor guide down the almost perpendi 
cular stair-ways, to the bowels of the ship and was 
assigned a bunk. The bunks were arranged in tiers 
of three and put as close together after allowing for 
a little passageway as was possible to do so. Very 
little daylight penetrated the "Hold" and the odor 
was disagreeable, reminding one of being in the New 
York subway on a hot sulphury day. For the re- 
mainder of the afternoon of the 14th and through 
the whole night the working of loading equipment 
and supplies was carried on. 

Leaving for France Co. H. had the following 
officers: Captain H. O. Warren, 1st Lieut. A. I. Lit- 
tell; 1st Lieut. E. C. Stover; 1st Lieut. C. F. Burr, and 
2nd Lieutenants A. E. Meyer and P. Stevenson, the 
latter two being graduates of the O. T. C. and being 
assigned to the company in May. 

THE VOYAGE TO FRANCE 
On the moming of the 15th we were still in Port 
At 10.00 A. M. the anchor was raised and the ship 
slowly slipped away from the dock. Everyone was 
ordered below deck until the convoy was reached and 
when allowed to go up on deck again, we noticed we 
were one of five transports. A cruiser was in the 
lead, destroyers and submarine chasers were on 
either side while above us soared hydroplanes. The 
big six inch guns, two fore and two aft, were loaded 
and their noses pointed outward, gun crews took 
their posts and look-outs scrambled up the long rope 
ladders to the crows nest and everything was pre- 
pared for business. 

At this time, German submarines were operating 
very close to the shores of the United States and it 
was not long before we had reached the danger zone. 
We passed out of sight of land and the sea and sky 
met on all sides, life preservers were worn at all 
times even when we slept. A half hour before dark, 
everyone was made to go to his bunk and from that 
time on, smoking was absolutely forbidden — not a 
light dared to be shown. After singing old camp 
songs down in the "Hold" on their first night at sea, 
the men went to their bunks to be awakened next 
morning by a thundering report as a shell was sent 
across the water in the direction of an enemy sub- 
marine. The siren sent out its weird warning sound 
and the men stood by their bunks. When the bugle 
sounded assembly they went quickly and orderly to 
the deck where they all sat down. Boats on all sides 
opened fire and the semblance of a big battle was 
in progress. Every time a shell pluged into the sea, 
a high stream of water would spout up, somewhat 
like that made by a whale when he is "Blowing," 
the men took the fight calmly, in fact they joked 
about it. As each shot was fired someone would yell 
"Mark 8" or make some other such remark. What 

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worried them most was the fact that the events 
of the morning had postponed the serving of break- 
fast. Recall blew in about an hour, but still the ves- 
sels of the fleet kept to their zig-zag course. It was 
unofficially reported that three submarines attacked 
us and that two of the number were destroyed. That 
afternoon eight more transports, that had sailed from 
New York, juined us, making a total of 13. Chaplain 
Coon conducted religious services on the fore deck 
and it was an impressive sight to see hundreds of un- 
covered heads bowed in prayer with only the lonely 
sea to witness. Sunday, June 16th is a day which 
will always live in our memories. 

The weather was excellent practically all of the 
voyage and the sea often being as smooth as the 
waters of the Hudson River. All day long the boys 
could be found squatting in every part of the crowd- 
ed deck, reading, singing or playing cards. Some 
whiled away the time by joshing, those boys, who 
for the first time in their lives, were away from 
home and in consequence a few of them almost broke 
their necks looking for the Lusitania monument 
while others packed all their equipment and pre- 
pared to get off at the Canary Islands. Every day 
an "abandon ship" drill took place and it was so well 
organized that every man of the four thousand 
aboard was upon deck and ready to take his place 
in life boat or raft in about four minutes. 

A week after our submarine battle we were still 
sailing. Each day we would wake to find the same 
scenes, the same surroundings and one would think 
that we had not moved a bit during the night. France 
seemed to be just "Over the hill" but we were a 
long time reaching the crest of that hill. Once in a 
while the sailors would run a hose on deck and an 
impromptu shower bath was rigged up. These salt 
water baths were certainly enjoyed by the men. We 
were kept in touch with the outside world, thanks to 
the wireless, and every day the baseball scores and 
war news were read to us. 

On June a4th we had reached the danger zone 
again. We entered the mine planted bay of Biscay 
and immediately orders were issued to wear life pre- 
serves which for the past week had been discarded, 
in addition, each man was required to wear his car- 
tridge belt, less all equipment other than a canteen 
filled with water. The commander was taking all 
precautions should the worst happen. The roughest 
part of the voyage was experienced in the bay, the 
ship rolling, tossing and plunging and waves sweep- 
ing high over the decks. 

It was a cheery sight when on the 25th a flotilla 
of American destroyers, fifteen in all, met and obli- 
qued on each side of us. Two days later, June 27th, 
at nine o'clock A. M. the dull outline of land could 
be made out far off on our starboard side and the 
men broke out with a rousing cheer. Gradually the 
green fields became distinguishable and we realized 

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our journey was nearing its end. Small fishing 
smacks were out in plemfy and their French occu- 
pants waved us a welcome. The ship slowly passed 
through rocky cliffs, which stood as sentinels at the 
entrance of the harbor and soon we were in full 
view of our destination. Brest, one of the oldest 
cities in France lay before us with its hundreds of 
white stoned buildings sparkling brightly in the 
sun stretched out in two rolling hills. The trans- 
ports, one by one, dropped anchor and awaited their 
turn to disembark. Around us swarmed tiny boats, 
the water rippled with them, and their patched pink 
sails made a deep contrast with the green of the sea. 
Destroyers and patrol boats hurried through the 
waters and a French submarine added to the collec- 
tion of war craft. High up in the air, elephant 
observation baloons passed and once a large yellow 
dirigible sailed over us. After enjoying the scenes 
for many hours we at last made ready to debark. 
At seven P. M. about a thousand men crowded on a 
long flat boat and in short time we were landed on 
the soil of what is termed "La Belle France." At 
dusk the column was set in motion. Grizzled old sol- 
diers, unfit for service at the front, stood guard on 
the piers dressed in various colored uniforms of the 
French army. Up the hilly narrow streets of the 
city we passed. The women waved and cheered, old 
men doffed their hats and small boys followed asking 
for cigarettes and permission to carry our rifles. 
Little group.5 of girls greeted us by singing our old 
favorite song "Hail, Hail the gang's all here," and 
it was comical to hear the French pronunciations of 
our words. The stone dwelling rested almost on the 
curbs of the quaint unlighted streets and everything 
was so unlike the cities we had left some three 
thousand miles behind us. Soon we had passed from 
the city and had reached the more sparsely settled 
district. At 12:45 A. M. we came to a large field 
where we pitched shelter tents and went off to a 
much needed sleep. And so ended our first night in 
France. 

The company did not drill during the short stay 
here and it gave the boys the opportunity of rambUng 
through the country and fraternizing with their new 
friends. The farms were of particular interest. All 
the buildings were of stone, carpenters are practi- 
cally unknown over there, and in "the front yard" 
could alwi'vs be found the oderiferous manure pile, 
some farms having larger piles than others, Erwin 
S. Cobb, the writer, who has spent considerable time 
in France, says that you can judge a man's wealth 
by the size of his manure pile. The occupants of 
these farms presented a queer appearance. They 
wore hea''.v, clumsy-looking wooden shoes and while 
some wore sport knitted socks, the majority used 
straw as a substitute. 

BREST TO VAUX 

On Saturday night, June 29th, we made ready t« 
move and at 10:30 P. M. with the sky still red from 




CHARLES H. KNAPP 

Awarded the Distinguished Sei-viee Cross by direction of the War 
Department. The ceremony and presentation took place at Camp 
Gordon. 

The citation follows: "Charles H. Knapp, first sergeant, Company 
B, 61st Infantry, Fifth Division, for extraordinary heroismin action 
northeast of Alncreville, France, November 2, 1918. First Sergeant 
Knapp, then private, took command of Compan'- B after all the offi- 
cers were killed or wounded, and led his company to the attack. 
When held up by machine gun fire from the enemy, he led a party 
against it, capturing the guns and killing the crew. Again, on No- 
vember 6, at Cole St. Germaine, he assumed command of the com- 
pany and returned a strong counter enemy attack." 




AMERICAN TROOPS ARRIVING IN FRANCE 




HAGENBACK 
111 this town Co. H moved to the front line trenches before the attack 
of August 21, 1918. In the graveyard to the right of the church 



ie the bodies of four Co. H. men killed 



this act on 




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the glorious sunset, Co. H. fell in line for a hot 
mess. It was four in the morning though, before 
the battalion began the hike to the Brest Terminal 
where we were to entrain. After a long hike made 
longer by being led astray by a guide, we arrived at 
the station and boarded the train. Fortunately we 
were to ride in passenger cars and not in the box 
cars so often written about in the stories of the war. 
The cars are divided iniio separate compartments, 
Bome having only hard wooden seats and some boast- 
ing cushions and finery according to the class of pass- 
age, and into compartment of our third class coaches 
(plain, hard benches) eight men and all their equip- 
ment was put, making things pretty well crowded. 
About 7:00 A. M. the train started, no one knew 
where we were going to, but imagined our trip would 
be long as three days rations, consisting of bread, 
beans, tomatoes "Com Willy" and jelly were issued. 
However, all of us realized that we were starting on 
another lap towards the trenches. 

At the town of LeRody, we got the first glimpse 
of our enemy, a few German prisoners behind barb 
wire, who stared with wondering eyes at the passing 
train-load of Yanks. The train sped on and we 
wondered how the dinky cars kept to the tracks. Old 
vine covered ruins of castles, beautiful chateaus sur- 
rounded by high turreted stone walls and the vast 
cultivated regions with faithful peasant women work- 
ers formed part of the scenery. France was one 
great military camp and harbored soldiers from 
every quarter of the world. On the road we passed 
Italians, Tommies, Anzacs. Canucks, Algerians, Rus- 
eians, Chinese employed by the French government 
and thousands of our own boys. At Rennes, Laval, 
Nevers, Dijon or in fact at any city the streets were 
occupied by men in uniform of all designs and colors. 

Many times the train stopped at stations and hot 
black coffee was distributed. It was in many cases 
almost undrinkable and was only downed by the men 
because of the warming qualities it offered. At noon 
time, July 2nd, we arrived at Vaux and detrained, 
having completed a six hundred mile journey over 
France. 

ISOMES 

After a hike of a mile Co. H. reached the village 
of Isomes, where the men were divided into groups 
and assigned to billets — our first in France. This 
little place is comparatively near the Swiss and Al- 
sace border. How near we were to the firing line 
can be judged by the fact that we heard 
reports of heavy guns and saw flashes in the 
sky made most likely by rockets or flares. Isomes is 
characteristic of all villages in France. All the 
houses are made of stone and are joined together 
on one long string. All show signs of old age and 
inadequate care, some buildings having their roofs 
•r walls caved in in consequence, while others looked 
as if they might tumble anv minute. And in these 



places the men made their homes. The usual 
"Epicerie" and wine shops were present and after 
each day of drilling the men gathered in them and 
sang away their troubles and cares. Manure piles 
were in abundance and filled the air with their yet 
unaccustomed odor. 

After our arrival, we cleaned up, not only ourselves 
and our clothes, but one day we put on our "blues" 
(denim fatigue suits) and cleaned up the streets in 
that part of the village occupied by us. It was dur- 
ing Private Mark Walraven's process of cleaning up 
his clothes that this big Texan met with a terrible 
catastrophe. He was standing in a stream, devoid of 
all clothing, when an innocent looking cow came 
along the bank, picked up his underdrawers and 
started away, consuming them as she went. Mark, as 
slow as he is good-natured, started in pursuit in his 
"back to nature" attire, but gave up the chase when 
he saw the last bit of the clothing disappear in the 
cow's mouth. 

Intensive training started once more and every day 
the company hiked some two miles to the drill 
grounds, a high hill which afforded an excellent pan- 
oramic view of the surrounding country. The men 
drilled all day, a solitary jelly or salmon sandwich 
constituting their noon meal and at 5 o'clock started 
back for their billets, a tired and hungry aggrega- 
tion. French automatic rifles, trench knives and gas 
masks were issued and then we were ready and eager 
for the trenches. 

While at Isomes we celebrated two great holidays. 
On Independence Day, July 4th, all drill was forgot- 
ten. Many tri-color flags were displayed by the in- 
habitants and they celebrated with us. On July 14th, 
the anniversary of the falling of the Bastille and 
the Independence of the French people, we joined 
with them in their commemoration. 
ANDELNANS 

This time the men were not destined to ride as 
comfortable as they did during their journey from 
Brest and when they arrived at the entraining point, 
a long string of flat and box cars was in waiting. 
The battalion boarded the train and a little before 
noon we were underway. All afternoon we sped on 
in the direction of the trenches, and at 6:00 P. M. the 
train came to a standstill at the city of Belfort. our 
destination. It wasn't long before we were hiking 
through the city's thoroughfares and were the ob- 
ject of curiosity of many eyes. The heat was tei-rific 
and our packs extremely heavy and before we had 
passed from the main streets the ranks were thinned 
by the falling out of great numbers of men. Every- 
time a man dropped he received immediate attention 
from some of the many people who lined the streets. 
Some lads were taken with fits and they were rushed 
in ambulances to the hospital. The column passed 
fortifications surrounding Belfort, and a little time 

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later entered a village. It was here that the boys 
first witnessed a Boche plane being fiied upon by 
!• tench anli-aircrait batteries. It was a beautiful 
scene to watch. Ihe deep blue sky was just dotted 
with pure white putts of smoke, small at first and 
grauuaily increasing in size until it finally faded 
from view. Alter walking si.x long kilometers, the 
town of Andelnans was reached and some of the 
men were so exhausted that they flopped on the 
ground anywheres and went to sleep, not even wait- 
ing to be assigned to billets. The next day H. Com- 
pany moved over to the other part of the town to 
make room for another company of the battallion. 
Drilling was begun immediately, each day the men 
going out wearing their heavy steel helmets and 
carrying gas masks. Because of the frequent Ger- 
man aeroplane incursions over this section, the men 
ate their meals in the shade of the trees and were 
thus screened from the birdman's view and when go- 
ing to and from the drill field the platoons marched 
50 meters apart. Many times our drill was inter- 
rupted by the Boche flying overhead when on such 
occasions all men were forced to lie on the ground, 
face downward so as to escape detection, until the 
enemy had disappeared. Needless to say, the men 
enjoyed these little rest periods and wished that 
Fritz would cDiiie over more often. In the course of 
our instructions all the men had the opportunity of 
throwing live hand grenades, the automatic squads 
tested their rifles on the range and the rifle gren- 
adiers fired their V. B.'s. Second Lieutenants Goode, 
formerly with the Rainbow Division, and Lamp of 
the 32nd Division, were assigned to H. Co. to fill the 
vacancies left by Lieutenants Little and Stevenson, 
the former being sent back to the States to be made 
Captain in a National Army organization, the latter 
being transferred to Headquarters Company of the 
113th Regiment. 

The Lines were only 15 miles from Andelnans and 
almost every night we could hear the booming of the 
artillery. On the 8th day of our stay, (July 28lh) in 
this town all our worldly possessions were packed in 
our rolls, automatic gunners loaded their magazines 
with .shells, all the cartridge belts were filled, coffee, 
sugar, salt and pepper were put in condiment cans, 
emergenoy rations issued and everything made ready 
for the trip which was to finally find us in the 
trenches — beginning from this day and lasting until 
September 2S, 1918, the 29th Division was in de- 
fence of the Center Sector, Haute Alsace. 

TO THE TRENCHES 
As soon as darkness set in (about 9:30) on the 
night of July 25th, the hike was started. It was a 
beautiful night and the moon, behind a curtain of 
thin whit.^ clouds, seemed to be laughing at us 
plodding along with our overloaded packs. We 
marched silently passed the fort we used to see from 

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the drill field and went on through a village which 
was filled with French soldiers. 

Powerful searchlights played amongst the clouds 
and made it impossible for a German to fly over 
without being detected. At one in the moining we 
arrived at a fairly large town, 3 miles from the bor- 
der of Switzerland, and here we were to put in bams 
for the remainder of the night. We had passed from 
the soil of France and had entered that part of the 
provinces of Alsace that had been ceded to Germany, 
as result of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Hik- 
ing in the war zone is always done by night, the men 
resting by day. Again the next night at 9.30 the 
march was resumed, but before starting the men 
were warned in regards to taking particular care of 
their gas masks as the report came in that only the 
day before some members of the 114th Regiment 
had been gassed. It was practically an up-hill grind 
all of the way and at the end of every half hour, we 
fell out and rested. 

By the light of a full silvery moon, we could see 
that the ground was just molded with entrench- 
ments and that barbed wire and other obstacles were 
placed everywhere. We passed some beautiful 
forests and in one of them carefully hidden from the 
eyes of an enemy avion, a French hospital which 
was later taken over by the 104th Sanitary Train 
of our Division. About 2 A. M. we reached Chev- 
annes La Grande and went off to a much needed sleep 
in the various billets assigned to us. When daylight 
broke the rain was falling in torrents, but despite 
this, the men wandered through the country and 
looked over the elaborate system of trenches. Inno- 
cent looking manure piles proved to be, on close in- 
spection, camouflage for heavy guns and great rows 
of shells. 

It was at this town that Lieutenant Meyers vi^aa 
promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant and it 
pleased the men just as much as it did him. At 
9 o'clock the battalion again started to hike and 
for three hours travelled under a cloudy sky and 
along muddy roads. Strict silence was the order of 
the march. Frequently flares were seen sending 
forth their bright light "out there." We reached 
Suaree about 3 miles from the trenches and were 
quartered in barracks and barns. Early next morn- 
ing the terrific reports of an anti-aircraft battery, 
situated about 200 yards from the village, awakened 
all. Part of the 410th Infantry (French) was in this 
village too, and they were to go into the trenches 
with us. Everyone, including the little tots going 
to school, carried gas masks and even while we were 
here, a few gas shells passed over our heads with 
their peculiar whine and exploded far behind us. 

When it became dark companies G. and H. strung 
out in a column of two's started on the last intei> 
vening lap, which separated them from the front lin« 
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lights were shot high in the air and the heavens 
were almost cou.>s;ually brightened. This sort of 
reminded one of a 4th of July celebration back in 
the States, but the rattle of the machine guns and 
automatic gun fire and the occasional report of a 75 
brought back all the seriousness of the grim busi- 
ness of war. However, the men were in high spirits 
and the usual "crabbing" which accompanies all night 
hikes was done away with on this night. We passed 
from the open country and switched into a corduroy 
road which led into a dense forest. After a long tire- 
some walk through the woods, the platoons took their 
respective positions in the front lines, at each place 
relieving a detachment of French who shouldered 
their packs and moved to the rear. 

The 29th Division was the 2nd American Division 
to occupy the trenches in Alsace, the 1st one being 
the 32nd Division who held the lines in June. On 
July 30th, when we entered the trenches the Blue 
and Gray was attached to the French 7th Army. 

When day-light broke the men had a chance to 
study their surroundings. Back of the lines and 
away from the winding trenches, the machine gun 
emplacements and the maze of wire, the scenery took 
on a more peaceful aspect. The company P. C. was 
«ituated in a beautiful spot among the trees and 
except for the numerous shell holes in the ground 
one would never have thought that the war had 
touched there. For five days and nights we were in 
the lines, desultory firing continuing all of the time, 
but taking it all in all it lived up to its name of a 
"quiet Sector." Nevertheless the Yanks were be- 
ginning to liven things up and it gave prospects of 
becoming a very hot sector before long. Every day 
the artillery sent some shells over to the Boche lines, 
which w-ere about a mile away and as they passed 
•ver our heads they made a weird, shrieking sound, 
the sound seeming more uncanny than ever when 
heard in the dead of night. 

From our observation posts, situated far out in 
"No Man's land," the men could see the smoke and 
hear the "Crump" of the exploding shells. A Ger- 
man patrol came over one night and attacked and 
killed a few engineers and Co. E. men (situated on 
our left) but the sector manned by H. Company men 
remained unmolested. One night, however, some of 
the men at a G. C. reported being fired upon by 
machine guns and they and the French stood ready to 
repel the anticipated Boche raid which for some rea- 
son was never attempted. 

The woods were infested with snipers, who altho 
silent during the day, were very active at night. 
Kvery night brought in reports of men being fired 
upon and it was a great wonder that no one was 
hit. We were never able to discover who was doing 
the shooting, but rumors never confirmed, yet con- 
sidered official, were spread about that German sol- 
diers disguised in French uniforms were responsible 



for it. This could easily be done for in all these 
Alsatian villages many German faces could be seen, 
some of these families having husbands and sons in 
the Kaiser's army and it was a simple matter to 
shelter a supposedly French poilu in the day and for 
him to start on his e.xpedition to the lines at night 
without anyone having the least bit of suspicion. 

Our worst enemies in these trenches were the lats. 
Dugouts, shelters and barracks were infested with 
them and many a hobnail was flung with a curse at 
the pests. To hear a flock of rats go scampering on 
the duckboards through the trenches at night was a 
sound which many a time got on a fellow's nerve. 
On the night of August 2nd Co. H. sent out a patrol 
to ascertain the extent of damage done to our wire 
by the enemy. It consisted of 22 men, including 
French guides, and was under the command of Lieu- 
tenant Stover. No Boche patrols were encountered 
and after ducking from several ftaies which Fiitz 
threw up and crawling and tearing through what 
seemed to be miles of barbed wire, the men arrived 
back in their own lines, all torn and scratched, but 
otherwise no worse off for their experience. Early 
in the morning of August 4th, we were relieved by 
F Company and our first trip in the trenches was 
at an end with no casualties sustained and we pro- 
ceeded to the village of Hindlingen about 8 kilo- 
meters away. 

HINDLINGEN AND MAGNY, ALSACE 

Our four day* in Hindlengen were spent in 
drilling in the practice trenches most of the time. 
While here we were given our pay for the month 6t 
June and it was our first time to receive French 
money. The paper bills reminded one of so many 
cigarette coupons. On Thursday night, August 8th, 
the Company packed up and started on another one 
of those despised night hikes. It was only a few 
days after we had left the village that it was bom- 
barded and the billets that the kitchen force and 4th 
platoon had occupied were wrecked, a few people and 
some stock being killed. For a couple of hours we 
marched parallel to the front, the star shells lighting 
up the road. We tumed off this road and followed 
one which led towards the rear. The town where we 
were to billet was found to be occupied by enginee7-s, 
so that necessitated us going about 4 miles further, 
we having gone 10 miles already. Finally Montr«.'UX 
Chateau was reached and the entire company was 
billeted in the freight station. After staying around 
this section two days, we once more started on our 
wanderings. The American Army in France selfJom 
stayed in one spot long enough to let the men get 
acclimated to their environments. For two hours we 
marched back over the same roads we had passed on 
August 8 th and then we entered the village of Magny 
which was to be our homes for a little while. 

On August 13th we were awakened at three in the 
morning by the thunderous roar of artillery. The 

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French soldiers living in barracks near us sounded 

their bugles and soon were marching towards the 
Front, Co. H. got orders to roll packs and be ready 
to move, too, but nothing materialized and we carried 
out our regular schedule of drill. Again three days 
later a terrific artillery bombardment started and 
lasted for about two hours. Our batallion was 
moved out to reserve trenches situated along a canal 
and after spending the whole of a hot day there with 
nothing eventful taking place, we hiked the long 
ways back to Magny. At this time the 113th Regi- 
ment was in reserve for the 114th, who were then 
holding the lines. 

On August 17th packs were rolled and prepara- 
tions were made for another trip to the trenches. 
As Captain Warren was now acting Major of the 3rd 
battalion, Lieutenant R. A. Smith of E. Company was 
placed in command of Copmany H. We was form- 
erly an officer in old H. Company, 2nd N. J. Infantry 
and a general favorite among those who knew him. 
Company H. was extremely fortunate in securing 
such a leader as Lieutenant Smith as was proven in 
days to come and on so many occasions. At 9 V. M. 
the company joined the rest of the battallion and 
hiked 5 miles to a big woods about 4 kilometers be- 
hind the lines where they stayed for the night. 
During the march an enemy plane flew very low 
over the column and everyone expected a few bojiibs 
to be dropped, but all were to be given a pleasant 
surprise, though, when Fritz sailed by without giving 
us any further annoyance. It seemed that this plane 
was headed for Magny, which village it raided. For 
the second time we were fortunate enough to leave 
a village before it was bombed. 

THE GERMANS RAID OUR TRENCHES 
All the next day the men were forced to stay in the 
woods on account of the increased activity of Ger- 
man aeroplanes. The night of August 18th the men 
hiked for 3 stiff hours and finally arrived at the 
trenches relieving a company of the 114th. This time 
we occupied a sector opposite Mulhouse, far to the 
left of where we had first gone in. The first night in 
everything went smoothly. But on August 21st at 
4:40 in the morning an enemy plane flew overhead 
and dropped a signal flare, almost immediately after 
which Hell was turned loose in all its fury. The 
Germans had opened up their artillery and for one 
hour and thirty minutes continued their terrific cur- 
tain barrage. The shells tore through the woods 
knocking down trees, sending roots high in the air, 
leveling trenches and making a man's chance of com- 
ing out alive seemingly very small. Private West 
was killed at his post. Privates Lorenz and Maddrah 
were also found dead on post, riddled with shrapnel. 
The earth quivered as if in the throes of a severe 
quake, dugouts even trembled and the concussion of 
the bursting shells was so great that it extinguished 
candles in them. Some shells burst high in air, rain- 

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ing down their jagged pieces of shrapnel, others 
exploded with a deafening roar close to the earth 
while still others buried their noses deep in tha 
ground sending up guysers of earth and stone when 
they exploded. 

Privates Termeer, Camus and Swiger were occupy- 
ing an observation post when a shell exploded, blow- 
ing Swiger completely out of the post and burying 
Termeer and Camus so deep that it took several men 
two hours of hard digging to free them. The woods 
were filled with heavy smoke which greatly helped 
the advance of the raiding party that followed close 
in the wake of the barrage. The 2nd platoon re- 
ceived the brunt of the bombardment and attack but 
the coolness and daring of Lieutenant Meyer and 
platoon Sergeants James Cooley and George Meiroso 
kept up the morale of the men through it all. The 
Huns' raiders comprised 120 men as was afterwards 
learned through the return of Private J. Oakley, who 
was taken prisoner during the engagement. As to 
their losses we were not able to find out as both 
their dead and wounded were carried back to their 
own lines. For fifteen minutes the Boches were in 
our trenches hurling their "potato masher" bomba 
Private Mohl was entering a dugout when he- was 
struck by shrapnel, he turned to go out when a Ger- 
man in the trench threw a bomb at him which ex- 
ploded and killed him instantly. 

The enemy disappeared much faster than they had 
come, taking back with them besides Oakley, Privates 
B. Tallman and E. Nolan. A barrage was called for 
at the Company P. C. and Lieutenant Smith succeed- 
ed in getting it, but the Boche managed to work 
their way through it. Many individual feats of dar- 
ing were performed by members of the Company, in 
this first severe attack; Corporal Terrill who rece'ved 
27 pieces of shrapnel and had his right hand shatter- 
ed, transferred his gat to his left hand and continued 
to fire until the Germans were beyond the wire. 
Private J. Zych was hit in the eye and after ban- 
daging it himself, continued to fight until the Boch« 
were driven back. Both men received the Dis- 
tinguished Service Cross. It is almost impossible 
to pick out the individual cases of bravery as every- 
one lived up to the name and tradition of the Ameri- 
can soldier. Lieutenant Meyer, Sergeants Cooley 
and Meirose and Corporal Apgar received divisional 
citations for the part they had taken in the fight. 
Mess Sergeant Dougherty and the cooks did excellent 
work in the comforting and bandaging the wounded. 

Our casualty lis; for this action was as follows-: 
KILLED 

Private Arthur Lorenz 

Private Harold West 

Private James Maddrah 

Private Ernest Mohl 

WOUNDED 

Corporal Elsworth O. Terrill 



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Corporal Russell I. Apgar 
Corporal James J. Hannan 
Private 1st 01. Joseph H. Lamey 
Private 1st CI. Joseph Patrak 
Private 1st CI. William B. Manley 
Private 1st CI. John Zych 
Private Rocco Di Taranto 
Private Michael Fitzpatrick 
Private Julius Resta 
Private Antonion Nasuti 
Private Albert Camus 
Private Edward Haas 
Private Peitro Galetti 
Private Stephen Sidorento 
Private George Teeple 
Private Lastano Lacerro 
Private Walter Cason 
Private Alphus Webb 
Private Clarence W. Cheshire 

SHELL SHOCKED ~' 

Coi-poral Raymond S. Tice 

Private Nelson Swiger 

Private Arthur V. Miller 

Private John W. Termeer 

MISSING 

Private Benjamin Tallman 

Private John Oakley 

Private Edward Nolan 

In the afternoon what remained of the 2nd platoon 
was relieved by a platoon from E. Company. The 
men were in a high state of nei-vous tension, the re- 
action of the ordeal through which they had gone at 
dawn began to tell on them and they needed rest. 
It was only a few days later Corporal R. S. Tice 
was taken to the hospital suffering from severe shell 
shock. 

The night of August 23rd the remainder of the 
Company was relieved by Co. E. and fell back to 
the support lines. Some of the dugouts boasted of 
electric lights and were large and spacious and the 
boys were fortunate who got into them. Up to 
the 29th of the month the Company was in support. 
Everyday the men of the 1st and 3rd platoons worked 
hard in the lines filling in shell holes, repairing 
broken sections in the trenches, cleaning the dirt 
from beneath duck-boards, etc. Meanwhile at Hagen- 
bach, where the Company P. C. was located, the 2nd 
and 4th platoons v/eve doiug guard duty. 

ST. LEGER AND MAGNY, ALSACE 

On the 29th the 3rd Battallion relieved us and we 
hiked to our billets in St. Leger. The day after our 
arrival new clothes were issued and the men once 
more presented a creditable appearance. In front 
of the village six huge ten inch guns were mounted 
on trains and also in the rear of us were more can- 
nons. The Germans tried to locate these pieces and 



as a result of an aeroplane reconnoissance one day 
opened up a bombardment, which lasted for twenty 
minutes. Fortunately no one was hit, nor were the 
guns destroyed. 

As usual drill was carried on and a couple of times 
the Company hiked to the battallion field, one of the 
longest hikes we ever made to go to drill. Men who 
never "crabbed" before complained on these days. 
On the 6th of September four Boche planes sailed 
high over head, one of which swooped down very 
low over the village. Everyone shot at him using 
rifles, gats and automatics and it sounded like a 
regular battle. His planes must have been riddled 
but the pilot was lucky enough to escape the hail of 
bullets and he guided his machine back to his own 
lines followed by his less daring comrades who still 
stuck to their high altitude. There was great aero- 
plane activity all of the time we were here and the 
boys witnessed many interesting air fights in 
one of which a French machine was disabled by a 
Boche. Early in the morning of the 7th the 113th 
Regiment raided the German lines. Men were pick- 
ed from each company to form the raiding party. 
Corporal W. Hampton, Private Termeer, Summers 
being among H Company's representatives. After a 
heavy bai-rage by our artillery, the men went "over 
the top," reached their objective without opposition 
and found only dead Germans, mangled and half 
buried in dirt, in what was formerly the trenches. 

On September 9th the company hiked back to 
Magny and occupied their same old billets. As was 
the case during our former stay here, the days were 
filled with drilling — always the work of training . The 
Montreux Chateau barracks, a few yards from the 
baggage station where for two days we had stayed, 
was bombarded and 6 men were killed and about 30 
wounded of Co. L of our regiment. The Germans 
in this sector seemed to hold the supremacy in the 
air and their aeroplanes were canstantly flying over 
us. One day the company occupied the reserve lines 
which were only about 1,500 yards from Danna- 
marie. The Germans in retaliation for the French 
artillery fire heavily bombarded the village during 
our occupation of the trenches. 

BOUND FOR THE BIG FRONT 

Before daybreak, September 18th, the boys were 
rolling packs and at 6 o'clock the battalion started 
hiking. The column reached Belfort and after a 
short rest, the march was continued. All afternoon 
we kept going, the straps of our packs biting into 
our shoulders and our stomachs torturing us, for we 
had nothing to eat but a little sandwich since leaving 
Magny. The men were tired and a heavy rain which 
had set in and drenched and chilled us through, made 
matters even worse. Finally at 7:00 P. M. we 
arrived at Chenebier and were billeted. We had 
covered about 25 miles and that terrible hike of July 
17th thi-ough Belfort was nothing in comparison with 

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this one we had just completed. Rumors were spread 
about that during our stay here all drilling was to 
be dispensed with. However our "Rest" consisted of 
hiking with short packs and a Brigade maneuver 
which none of us will forget. All day long we tramp- 
ed in combat group foiTnation up and down hills 
which would tower over any of the ones we encoun- 
tered during our training in Alabama. When it 
wasn't hills, we were wading through swamps or 
jumping streams, some of which were too wide for 
some of our short fat men to get over. Consequently 
these unfortunates were treated to a cold bath, they 
were "S. O. L." to use the universal expression. 

It rained very hard on September 23rd and this 
was the day we were to move once more. The 88th 
Division was taking over our old Alsance sectors and 
the 29th Division was destined to leave for a more 
active front. The colonel had told the men that they 
were soon to go into action and this thought cheered 
them up while they floundered through the muddy 
roads for a distance of 7 kilometers. 

At Bas Evette we were crowded into box cars. 30 
or more men to a car which could only comfortably 
hold about 10. We rode on through Lure, Cham- 
pagne and Versul, but there was no pleasure in riding 
as the cars were wet, cold and dirty, in fact old 
straw and manure still remained in some of them. 
The low country for miles at a stretch around was 
flooded as result of the heavy rains and many a road 
was submerged and houses isolated. 

Sleep was practically impossible, it always is when 
traveling on a troop train, and the boys were happy 
when at noon of the next day they arrived at Net- 
tancourt (about 50 kilometers from Verdun) and 
detrained. A colored regiment of the 92nd Division 
was in waiting in the fields near by for orders to 
move and a trainload of 35th Division men were in 
the railroad yards waiting to be unloaded. We were 
told that during the last five days, ten divisions had 
been detrained here and this news gave promise of 
another of General Foch's strategic drives being 
launched. Our battallion was not to start hiking 
until night, so we went to a forest, a kilometer 
from the station and rested there until darkness 
came. During the afternoon Sergeant Cooley, Bugler 
Cole and Privates Mann and Wellman were taken to 
the hospital, ill with influenza. They proved to be 
the advance guard of the great numbers that later 
contracted the disease and had to leave, leaving but a 
mere skeleton of a company left. At 1 P. M. packs 
were shouldered and under a bright moonlit sky, we 
started on a long hard hike. The column passed 
through a town which once had been ruined but had 
been rebuilt, but as we entered Louppy Le Chateau, 
the ravages of war were still very evident. The 
moon shown down on battered and ruined walls and 
disclosed great blocks of masonry lying in heaps in 
the roads. 

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That night we were billeted in this town and in the 
morning the men looked over the scenes of destruc- 
tion. Only a wall or chimney remained of what had 
at one time been beautiful houses. Hardly a house 
stood untouched by shell fire, but in the wreckage 
and at isolated parts could be found a small home 
still occupied. A large cathedral was badly damaged 
and one of its huge bells had fallen to the ground, 
but the inside remained untouched as if by God's 
own will. The work of rebuilding was in progress, 
German prisoners of war being engaged in it. At 4 
o'clock in the afternoon, the battalion continued its 
march. A drizzling rain was falling and the men 
were still aching from the effects of the previous 
night's trying hike and everyone was happy when a 
large forest (about 7 kilometers distant) was reach- 
ed and shelter tents pitched. All that night — the 
2Gth of September, the opening of the great Ameri- 
can drive north of Verdun, the terrific thundering 
roar of the Allied artillery, continued. All the fol- 
lowing day we stayed in the woods waiting orders for 
a further move. Each man was checked up in re- 
gards to having steel helmets and first aid packets 
and he was given a total of 220 rounds of ammunition 
preparatory to entering the drive. The next morning 
the batallion was ordered to roll packs and prepare 
to move to the trucks which were supposed to carry 
us to the front. Everything was made ready but the 
moving didn't commence until that evening. 

About 8 P. M. the column started and walked a 
few hundred yards to the road and there halted and 
waited eight long dreary hours before starting 
again. At 4 o'clock the battalion moved on, this 
time the trucks were reached, much to the joy of the 
tired and chilled men. For the next few days these 
trucks were our homes. At this time the Blue and 
Gray was held in resei-ve and it depended on how the 
battle waged whether or not the regiment would be 
rushed to the front. Each contained nineteen men, 
many more than one could comfortably hold and in 
consequence, some pitched shelter tents or slept in 
the aeroplane hangers near by. Several hundred 
trucks, each manned by a Chinese driver, were re- 
quired to hold the regiment. 

These drivers were probably drafted from the 
French colonies and it was an odd sight to see these 
yellow men -'n France and so close to the battle line. 

While the regiment was held here, the men spent 
many an interesting hour at an aeroplane field, which 
was close to where the trucks were parked. 

It was the first time that a good many of us had 
a close view of a plane. Not a day went by without 
a fleet going on some mission in Boche-land, some- 
times returning minus a few machines. The two 
weeKS which began during our stay here were the 
worse the men ever experienced, the sun was al- 
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claiming more victims who were immediately taken 
to the hospital, among them being Lieutenant Smith. 

The battle at the front was evidently progressing 
in favor of the Allies, for on Sunday, September 29th, 
we were ordered to leave the trucks and they went 
off without us. Tents were pitched in a nearby field 
and the rest of the day was spent there. At 2:30 
the next morning (raining as usual) our regiment 
broke camp and the march to the front began. We 
hiked for four hours and just after daybreak made 
camp in the field on the outskirts of Beanzee. That 
night the regiment again broke camp and for several 
hours plodded wearily along the road until it finally 
arrived at a big woods. It proved that this was the 
wrong woods for the 113th to rest in so at 9 A. M. 
the following morning we hiked for the other. Here 
we stayed a few days making final preparations for 
the last few marches which would lead us some- 
where on the battle line. Clothing was issued and 
inspections were held daily to see that everyone was 
in fit condition. 

Finally we left the woods (on the night of October 
4th) Co. H. guarding the wagon train. Several hours 
marching brought us to the end of our journey. We 
expected to bivouac in the woods again, but here a 
surprise awaited us. Instead of a woods there was 
a big camp filled with wooden barracks. Our com- 
pany was aassigned to one and made tood use of it 
that night. 

In the morning the natural curiosity led the men to 
wander around the camp. It was extremely large, 
accommodating several regiments. The camp boast- 
ed of a "Y" hut which was filled with men in O. D. 
writing their last letters home before entering the 
fight. Sunday afternoon while a few of the "Y" 
workers were entertaining us, our brigade command- 
er, General Upton (a regular ai-my man formerly 
with the 2nd Division) spoke. He told us that within 
the next few days the other brigade of our division 
would go "over the top" and that ours would follow 
closely. He also encouraged us in telling several 
incidents of the foi-mer battles he took part in point- 
ing out some of the brave deeds done by the men of 
this command. His talk was enjoyed by all of the 
men who gave him a rousing cheer at the close of it. 

Monday night found us again on the road. Mile 
after mile we covered one time a two hour wait in 
the rain caused considerable dissatisfaction among 
the men, but when we had arrived at our resting 
place, a woods near a village called Germanville, we 
were only a short distance from the front. Ahead 
of us our big guns were roaring, in the distance we 
could see the flare sent up from the lines. The men 
did not get much rest here. Packs were left rolled 
for the regiment expected to be on the move by day- 
light. The orders did not arrive until late Tuesday 
morning. Before leaving, the men had to apply sag 



paste on their bodies. The paste issued to us a few 
days before was used for the protection of the skin 
against certain gasses which would most likely be 
encountered during the attack. 

As far as the eyes could reach on this daylight 
march, nothing could be seen but battle scarred fields 
and woods, broken in some places by long lines of 
trenches. Our artillery was scattered about but it 
was so well camouflaged that the pieces could not 
be seen except when they poured forth smoke and 
flame. The whole surrounding had a glorious aspect. 
Civilization seemed to be left far behind and even 
the things of nature refused to show themselves. 
By three o'clock in the afternoon we were well ahead 
of our rear line artillery and quite close to the front 
A stop on the slope of a hill protecting us from 
observation was made about this time, fire started 
in the kitchen and good meals prepared for the men. 
Several Y. M. C. A. entertainers, amongst the num- 
ber being two American girls, braved the danger of 
enemy shells and sang for us, the thunder of the 
guns making an odd accompaniment. Prayers were 
given amid the dim of the battle and it was an 
inspiring sight to see several thousand men with 
bowed heads listening to the solemn words. At 9 
o'clock the march was resumed. For several miles 
the column followed a railroad track. Here every- 
thing was torn to pieces by the big shells. Huge 
holes yawned ahead of us in the darkness and it was 
only by careful walking that accidents were avoided. 

After crossing the river Meuse on a pontoon bridge 
the regiment came to the town of Samogueux. This 
place was completely demolished, nothing being left 
but a few walls, the name and resemblance of better 
days. The regiment rested nearby in a valley, wait- 
ing for daylight to arrive when it would take its 
place at the front. Packs remained rolled and we 
patiently waited for night to pass. 

With daylight came orders that we would not 
move on for another 24 hours. The valley in which 
we were resting was taken from the enemy only 
the day before our regiment arrived, by the 58th 
Brigade. German occupation was in evidence. All 
kinds of equipment, shells, machine guns and instru- 
ments of war were left behind in their hasty retreat. 
Large dugouts reinforced with concrete and steel 
machine gun posts and lines of well built trenches 
were so located behind the hills as to make them 
very formidable strongholds, gave proof of the 
Prussian efTiciency and their intention of holding 
this ground. 

FACING THE HUN 
(The Meuse-Argonne OfTensive) 

Very early in the moming of October 10th, the 
regiment began its last lap to the front line. The 
three battalions separated, the second proceeding up 
a valley to its designated position. The line now 
extended through a deep woods (known as the Or- 

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mont woods) the battalion's sector being held by 
part of the 116th infantry. Boche planes maneuver- 
ed over us as we advanced to the line. Several 
American boys killed by shrapnel and machine gun 
bullets, and many dead German soldiers lay along 
our path. It was a sickening sight to see the 
mangled and torn bodies, but we were fast becoming 
accustomed to it. Once the column was shelled, 
causing a few casualties and if it had not been halted 
when it was, the battalion would have suffered heavy 
losses. 

By noon we went into position, relieving the 116th 
without being observed, the woods affording ample 
protection for this movement. H. Company occupied 
the support line in combat groups about 200 yards 
behind Co. E. The lines now lay along the side of 
a steep hill through the deepest part of the woods. 
The crest of the hill was considered "No Man's Land" 
and somewhere on the reverse side of the slope was 
the enemy. Our left was being held by the remain- 
ing two companies of the battalion and on our right 
and a little to our rear were the French. During the 
afternoon this line was brought up beyond ours, the 
French having advanced under a heavy artillery and 
machine gun barrage. The noise was terrific and at 
the time we did not know what was taking place, but 
late in the day the shelling ceased except for an 
occasional big one which was sent over by Fritz and 
we then learned of tlie French advance. Most of 
these shells whistled over our heads and burst some- 
wheres in the rear. Sleep was practically impossible 
the first night, the shells screaming with a dreadful 
sound as they came over which caused the men to 
do considerable hugging of the ground. Later the 
men termed these huge projectiles "G. I. Cans," 
"Barrack Bags," "Freight Cars," etc., because of 
their size and the noise they made as they went on 
their deadly way. 

On the morning of October 10th, before the Com- 
pany took up its position, part of the 116th in the 
Battle of Molleville Fai-m, had advanced to a point 
several hundred yards ahead of the line we were r.ow 
holding. The French on our right supported by part 
of the Blue and Gray Division had also carried their 
line beyond ours in the Battle of Malbrouck Farm. 
As result of this, the Boche, ahead of us retired and 
the next day the battalion advanced without meeting 
resistance, thereby straightening the lines. Now 
our front line lay just above a ravine known as 
"Ravine De Molleville," while the enemy occupied the 
hill opposite the ravine. During the company's ad- 
vance through the woods, the Boche opened up their 
artillery on the paths we were following. We had to 
retire several yards for a short time but when we 
proceeded to the new positions without further inter- 
ference. Laison work was a problem in these 
advances, due to the density of the woods in which 

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we were fighting, but despite this the "Runners" all 

did excellent work. 

With Friday night came the company's first 
casualties. At intervals during the night, the Ger- 
mans severely bombarded the front line and support 
area. Some of the shells fell very close, one of 
which wounded six men, Sergeant C. Van Tine, 
Corporals G. Cutter and J. Carroll and Privates 
Peterson, Eichstad and Bums. Saturday morning 
found the company well established on the front line. 
The battalions sector now covered more of the front 
and the companies in support had to be used to hold 
it. Co. n. took up a position between Companies E. 
and F. Immediately the men "dug in" for protec- 
tion against shrapnel and bullets. For more than six 
days we held tlie line here, living in our little holes 
almost continually. Unnecessary moving about was 
not permitted on account of observation and with this 
and the danger of enemy shells, the men got very 
little exercise. Weather conditions were also against 
us. Every day of the six that we remained there, 
the men had to battle against the rain and cold. The 
weather proved our worst enemy for many more 
men were taken sick and sent to the hospitals than 
were killed or wounded. Lieutenants Goode was 
amongst the number sent away and his going left 
the company with but two officers, Lieutenants 
Stover and Lamp, until the return of Lieut. Smith 
two days later. Some of the men who had to go 
to the hospital never returned to the company as 
they contracted pneumonia and succumbed to it 
Amongst these brave fellows were Corporals R. S. 
Tice (who was shell shocked in Alsace, but later was 
taken with pneumonia), J. Peterman, H. Tettemer, E. 
Ross, W. Hampton and Privates J. Griffiths, G. 
Woods, A. KoUar and L. Muskal. All were old men 
of the former 2nd New Jersey Regiment and their 
deaths was a hard blow for their many friends who 
had soldiered side by side with them for over eigh- 
teen months. 

Before leaving the front lines the men hailed with 
joy the return of their commander. Lieutenant Smith, 
who immediately resumed command of the company. 
As must be expected the company did not leave this 
area with all of its men, for somewhere in the Molle- 
ville Ravine, deep in the Argonne Forests are the 
graves of five of its best soldiers, Privates J. Boyd, 
A. Gowan, W. K. Williams and J. Patrak, all of whom 
made the supreme sacrifice, all of them were killed 
on their posts by shell fire which burst in their 
midst. Early on the morning of October 18th the 
men were finally relieved by another company of the 
battalion and we went back to a reserve position 
about a kilometer behind the lines. Here a check 
was made of the company and it was found that only 
50 men and 3 officers remained. Over half the men 
were lost, through sickness. This gives an idea of 
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during the journey to the front and our first ten days through the dense woods ir inky blackness to take up 



there. 

The company held this position in reserve for 
four days, living during this time in German dug- 
outs. It was no rest camp and the few men left 
had to carry rations to the front line companies, run 
messages and do various other kinds of detail. 

On the evening of the 21st of October, Lieutenant 
Smith having reported to Battalion headquarters 
pursuant to orders, received instructions that Com- 
pany H. was to participate in a general attack at 
daybreak the following morning on Etrayes Ridge, 
a strongly held, strongly fortified German position, 
abou; IV2 miles northeast of Consenvoye in the Con- 
senvoye Woods — upon his return our mission was 
explained to all but in the meantime the attack was 
postponed twenty-four hours. 

Our instructions for the attack were that H. 
Company was to be divided into two platoons to act 



their position at the parallel of departure which was 
a line drawn north and south through MoUeville 
Farm. Each platoon was to have a section of 
Machine Guns, but the guns for the right group were 
not found at the appointed place and upon learning 
they were further up the ravine. Private Brymner 
was sent to bring them up. He, however, died in the 
perfoiinance of this duty from German &hell fire. 

The woods through which we passed to arrive at 
our designated place were in the day time deserted, 
but the sight that met us as we slowly and silently 
moved into position will never be forgotten by any 
that passed to the attack, great gaping holes made 
by shells, the paths strewn with the dead of both 
armies, made an indelible impression. The Germans 
probably assuming something was up, opened up a 
terrific artillery fire on the entire area, the shelling 
being continuous and violent during the early hours, 
nothing could stop the Americans, however, and they 



as combat lasion groups, the right group connecting ^^^^ jjy the thousands pouring out and through the 



up the right of the 29th Division (llSth Infantry) 
with the left of the 26th Division (101st Infantry) 
while the left group was to act in the same capacity 
between the 113th and 116th Infantry, the latter ad- 
vancing abreast of the 113th Infantry on the left 
sector. The groups were divided with Lieutenant 
Smith in command of the right platoon and Lieu- 
tenant Stover in command of the left platoon. Each 
platoon consisted only of about 22 men such had 
been the terrific effect of climatic conditions and 
losses from enemy fire. 




SEGT. BASCHONG BRINGS IN THE BACON 

At 2 A. M. on the morning of the 23rd of October 
(iie company assembled and under command of their 
respective leaders the platoons moved silently 



woods in perfect alignment moving without con- 
fusion, without disorder to their proper stations in 
the line. The right group commanded by Lieutenant 
Smith, reached its position in good season arriving 
there at 4 A. M. or as the order stated "H minus 2 
hours" while the left group was gaining its position 
on the left of the line. We crouched amid the ruins 
of MoUeville fann waiting for our barrage to open — 
this was to commence at 5:30 and consisted of artil- 
lery and machine guns — promptly on time the bar- 
rage opened and for 45 minutes artillery and machine 
guns tore the German trenches and barb wire de- 
fenses to pieces — the concussion was terrific, the roar 
deafening, the machine guns particularly in our 
immediate rear cracking and sputtering like an end- 
less pack of giant fire crackers — the earth shook 
and peering over our breastwork of the farm's ruins, 
we saw great trees torn up and hurled down, saw 
holes blasted in the earth large enough to hold a 
platoon of men. It seemed nothing could survive 
that terrific barrage. We looked around and the 
American troops were crouching down smoking, 
rolling cigarettes and waiting for the order that was 
to carry them over and which was to mean death to 
so many. At 6:15 A. M. the rolling barrage started 
forward, the crouching figures came to life, slirill 
blasts of the whistle sounded and H. Company start- 
ed over the top in company with supporting com- 
panies. Our Division is called "The Blue and Gray" 
and surely this attack was delivered by splendid rep- 
resentatives of both the Blue and Gray, the 116th 
Infantry from Virginia on the left kept close contact 
with the 113th Infantry from New Jersey on the 
right and thus did Virginia and New Jersey once 
again cement the bonds of Blue and Gray so that 
they will never again be questioned. 

Sergeant Nordhaus was wounded soon after the 

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attack started and was evacuated to the rear. ..Slowly 
and surely did the attack move forward behind the 
barrage over trenches, through barb wire entangle- 
ments which had been ripped and torn by our artil- 
lery pressing always forward until the inter-mediate 
objective had been reached when the following mes- 
sage was sent back to the Battalion, P. C, by Lieu- 
tenant Smith: 

FROM C. O. CO. H. 
AT Intermediate Objective 

DATE 23 October, 1918; Hour, 8:50 A. M.; 
HOW SENT, Runner No. 2. 
TO C. 0. Battalion B. 

HERE 

Signed, SMITH. 

After an hour's rest at the intei-mediate objective 
in order to replace those who had fallen, to realign 
the companies, the advance was once more continued 
through the dense woods of the Argonne forest. 
Soon prisoners began to filter back from the com- 
panies on our right and left and were passed to the 
rear, the enemy defense also being to stiffen con- 
siderably and as our barrage lightened their machine 
guns began to crack and the advance was slower but 
none the less steady and consistent. The companies 
ed in the line between the 29th and 26th Divisions 
and H. Company continued forward to fill it. In the 
advance Lieutenant Lamp and Private Kuhl took a 
machine gun nest and three prisoners who were 
from the 28 Prussian Guard Regiment. ..We occupied 
the machine gun nest as our company P. C. and as 
this was our objective, prepared to defend the posi- 
tion. The action had continued steadily since 6:15 
A. M. and the men had been moving since 2:00 A. M. 
At 13:30 o'clock the following message was sent the 
Battalion P. C. denoting that we had reached our 
objective: 

FROM C. O. Co. H. 
AT 27.0 : 82.3 

DATE 23 October, 1918; Hour, 13.20; How 
Sent, Runner No. 3. 
TO C. O. Battalion B. 

Arrived at our objective above hour. Am in 
trenches here and my P. C. is previous Gei-man M. G. 
nest we took. In Liason with 113th Infantry (Co. 
B.) and 101 Infantry (B. Co.) throughout day. Need 
chauchaut ammunition for delayed defense. 
(Signed) SMITH. 

We held this advance position until 9 P. M. that 
evening, when we were advised that the companie.s on 
our left were going to drop back 200 yards to a better 
position. As this would leave our flank exposed and 
the entire platoon beyond the front line we too, 
dropped back taking up our position in a new line 
of shell holes connecting up with the companies on 
our left and fomiing a continuous front line of resis- 
tance along the entire front. In haste we formed 
our new line for defense. Machine guns protected 
our left flank, between us and the other companies 

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of the 113th Infantry and this position was held and 
maintained for two days and two nights — and these 
were nights of ceaseless watching and waiting — 
enemy machine guns were constantly firing and theii 
artillery was never silent always searching out paths, 
dugouts behind the lines and in the lines themselves. 
The question of food thersiore was a precarious 
one and during our stay here little food was able to 
be sent forward to us. We had carried some from 
our support position when moving forward and we 
found some in the Gei-man dugout and managed to 
get along on that for the time we were there. 

On the evening of Wednesday at dusk a counter 
attack was launched against the 26th Division on our 
right extending to our line. Barrage and counter 
barrage was sent over and for two hours a perfect 
inferno reigned all around us. The machine guns 
kept up their sputtering and the crack of the Ger- 
man rifle was continuous. The attack was repulsed, 
however, without difficulty. It was evident at this 
time that the morale of the enemy was at a low 
ebb, that he was nervous and rattled and was shown 
particularly Wednesday night by the numerous flai-ej 
and star shells, they sent up as many as a dozen at 
a time, being sent up directly in our front. 

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 25th, orders 
came for our relief, our sector being taken over by 
the 114th Infantry and in small groups what was 
left of our Company made its way rearward to the 
reserve positions. Tired out, sick, exhausted by 
ceaseless watching and exposure, they moved slowly 
out. 

The happenings of Lieutenant Stover's group were 
similar to those of the group commanded by Lieu- 
tenant Smith. The left of the line where this section 
was located had advanced somewhat slower than the 
right on account of the deep woods and the final 
objective was really not gained until the next day. 
Private Boyd was the first man to suffer a wound in 
this group. While running a message in the early 
part of the drive, he was hit in the hand by a piece 
of shrapnel. In this group several men became lost 
from their company, some of them attaching them- 
selves to the 116th Infantry when unable to locate 
their own organization. Private Kuras while carry- 
ing ammunition, was sui-prised by two Germans and 
taken prisoner. Lieutenant Stover's command made 
up for the capturing of Duras by taking 12 Boche 
prisoners. On the first day of the advance Corporal 
Baschong made the capture single-handed, of two 
Germans in their machine gun post. For this Cor- 
poral Baschong, later made Sergeant, received the 
Divisional Citation. Later in the day what was left 
of the group surrounded a dugout and made the cap- 
ture of eight more Boche. On the 2nd day Private 
Stybens while running a message, took the wrong 
path and ran into the German lines. He came back 
quickly on discovering his mistake, but before doing 
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with him. He also received Divisional Citation. 

Just before the company was relieved, Lieutenant 
Stover was badly wounded in the head and had to 
be taken to the hospital. This left the group with- 
out an officer, but nothing serious happened and it 
was but a short while afterward that the group was 
withdrawn and taken into its position in reserve. 

Besides the wounding of Lieutenant Stover, this 
section suffered two other casualties. Private Hok- 
ansin was wounded by a sniper and Private Nistico 
was killed by a machine gun bullet. 

Before darkness set in the company was assembled 
at its position in resei-ve. We occupied the same 
valley we had camped in just before going to the 
lines. When we first stayed here the place had a 
gloomy aspect, but this time altho still only a few 
miles from the front, it resembled a paradise. The 
scenery was somewhat different, the salvage having 
been cleaned up and our artillery having been moved 
in some instances, even further than the valley. At 
4 o'clock, a little after we reached the valley, our 
mess sergeant had a hot meal ready for us. Never 
was a warm meal more enjoyed as this was our 
first in almost twenty days. With our meal we were 
given our mail, plenty for all. Everything went fine 
in the valley except the news we heard, some of 
which was hard to hear. We were told of the last 
casualties just before leaving the front, Privates 
Nistico and Brynmer, who were killed, and Lieuten- 
ant Stover, Sergeant Nordhause and Private W. 
Boyd wounded during the drive. 

The story was also received in full of the hard 
luck of the kitchen and the heroism of Mess Ser- 
geant Dougherty who had administered first aid to 
men and horses regardless of his own life during a 
day when the kitchens were bombarded. Life was in 
danger in the rear as well as at the front line, as the 
cooks will verify. 

This was proved again by the conditions of some 
of the kitchens and the small number of horses that 
were left, saddest of all was the news of the men 
who had died at the hospital, of which mention has 
already been made, this however, was when the com- 
pany first learned of the losses and it could hardly be 
realized. 

It was not until Saturday that the company was 
sure of not taking another trip to the lines when 
the Colonel in person told several of the men they 
had made their last trip to the front line at least, 
for sometime, he also told them that we would be 
carried back to our rest area in trucks when we 
got far enough behind the lines. Except for a few 
details gathering salvage, practically the whole of 
Friday and Saturday were spent in getting equipped 
and cleaned up. 

Many of the men were so dirty that they resembled 
negroes and almost everyone wore a shaggy beard, 
the famous Meuse River, which flows nearby, was 



turned into a dirty and colored stream after the boys 
of Co. H. completed their scrubbing and cleaning. 
Much equipment was issued and before we left the 
valley we looked fit for another "scrap" except for 
our small personnel. 

While in the valley our houses were in shell holes 
and while not very cheerful or comfortable, they 
were better than nothing. Occasionally both our 
artillery and the enemy's opened up but the men 
were by this time well accustomed to such fun, a 
few times a few shells dropped close by and except 
for the gas they gave off causing us to adjust masks, 
no further attention was paid to them. Sunday 
morning orders were issued that our hike to the rear 
would begin that evening, during the moming an 
aeroplane flew over our heads and dropped a bundle 
of newspapers (Paris Editions of the New York 
Herald) and this was the first news of the outside 
world that we had received in over a month. By 
5 o'clock in the afternoon the column was moving, 
although not far behind the lines, the march led 
along a fairly good road which for miles was camou- 
flaged. 

Occasionally a few shells would burst around us, 
but none came close enough to cause casualties. 
Several times ruined villages were passed, some of 
them still receiving the wrath of the Hun who con- 
tinued to shell them. Powerful search-lights played 
in the heavens when darkness fell, for the night was 
one well suited for aeroplane raids. 

Once we passed a body of French infantry, who 
were maixhing in the opposite direction, evidently 
on their way to do a "hitch in hell." 

By midnight the regiment reached a place called 
Baleycourt, near Verdun; here the men slept in bar- 
racks for the remainder of the night with minds at 
ease. Although still in danger of shell-fire, all felt 
comparatively safe; at 5 o'clock Monday evening the 
regiment again took up the hike; it was but a short 
one and in a few hours reached the barracks at 
Moulin Brue; from here the regiment boarded motor 
trucks the next evening. 

RESSON 

The regiment was not huddled together in insuffi- 
cient number of trucks. There were plenty, each 
truck holding nineteen men comfortably and the ride 
was enjoyed. From 6 o'clock to 10 we covered mile 
after mile, leaving the front with all its horror far 
behind and finally arriving at our rest area at Naives, 
a few kilometers from Bar le Due. 

Part of the regiment was billited here but the 
second battalion hiked to their billets in the village 
of Resson. Our quarters were fairly good, although 
they were of stone, and hay was scarce, however, this 
was offset by their being clean and large. 

The next moming cots were obtained and also 
ticks with straw and the men were made more com- 
fortable than they had been since leaving the town 

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of Chenebier. Because the regiment was stationed 
in a rest area did not necessarily mean tliat the 
men were to be allowed absolute freedom from drill. 

The first two days we had entirely to ourselves 
during which time some of the members of the com- 
pany visited Bar le Due, after that, though, the men 
began on a schedule of hard drilling, which would 
prepare them for their next trip to the front. Much 
time was spent in battalion and regimental maneu- 
vers and each man was given considerable rifle 
practice. 

Replacement troops arrived shortly after and we 
began our intensive training and as they were practi- 
cally new men in the ai-my, they had to leam the 
fundamentals of soldiering and the art of open war- 
fare. 

Noncoms were made to fill up the vacancies and 
by the time we were ready to move, the company 
was once more in good shape, both in personnel and 
condition even though one-third of the men were 
"Rookies" a little more than a week previous. 
November 1st Lieutenant Smith, because of his effi- 
ciency, received his commission as Captain, and this 
gave the company the best Captain in the regiment, 
but it also gave "H" a great boost toward becoming 
the crack organization of the 113th. 

Time passed quickly here and when not drilling 
the men wrote letters home telling of the recent 
drive. ..Occasionally the "Y" would furnish movies 
for the enjoyment of all during the evenings and 
on Sunday afternoons the band would give concerts 
in the village, Chaplin Coons also made a few visits 
and gave us cheering talks on the peace that was 
soon to come. 

Our rest period almost came to an end when on 
Sunday night, November 10th, orders arrived to the 
effect that the regiment would pack rolls and move 
toward the front the next morning, according to un- 
official rumor were to march four (4) days, covering 
22 kilometers a day and finally taking our place on 
the lines near Metz, not very cheerful we thought, 
with peace so near at hand. By 5 A. M. Monday 
morning everyone was astir, packs were rolled, 
kitchens made ready, billets policed and by 8 o'clock 
the company was prepared to march. 

A few minutes before assembling time, came the 
order recinding the one of the night before; this 
changed the aspect of everything and the men were 
happy to think that no long hike would be made that 
day; we felt that something of great importance had 
happened being such an order had to be annulled. 

In fact something of the greatest importance had 
occured, for shortly afterwards, Captain Smith 
announced that the Armistice, amounting to nothing 
less than a complete surrender, was signed by Ger- 
many. Wonderful was the feeling of the men that 
day; it meant to us that there would be no more hold- 
ing of the lines, "no more good men going west" or 

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existing without food for days at a time. The iron 
hand of the Kaiser was no more, his armies had beea 
broken and were in full retreat all along the entire 
Western Front since the Americans stemed the 
great tide at Chateau-lhiery in July, the firm of 
"Me und Gott" had failed, no wonder the glad rejoic- 
ings. At Battalion Headquarters flew the Stars and 
Stripes, the first time in a good many months some 
of us had seen it. 

Monday evening the regiment assembled and cele- 
brated the signing of the armistice at the town of 
Naives, a band concert, regimental signing Pyro- 
technics and speeches by the officers comprised the 
celebration and there was a gay time all around. 
The cheering reached its height when the Brigade 
Commander took the stand and told the men that 
he commanded the best Brigade in France. By 9 
o'clock, the celebration was over and the Companies 
marched to their billets. That night the men slept 
with lighter hearts than ever before in France. 

The war being- over, the loimors about that the 
regiment was soon to leave the rest area, either to go 
in the AiTny of Occupation or to move even further 
to the rear. True to rumors, orders an-ived on 
Saturday, November 16th which stated that we would 
begin hiking the next day. It was soon found out 
that the Division was to move to a different section 
of the country. 

Sunday morning the hike began and after a few 
hours of marching during which time Colonel Pope 
inspected us, the battalion reached the to\vn of Sal- 
mange, vi'here it was billeted for the rest of the day, 
we stayed in this towm two days and on Tuesday 
night hiked five kilometers to Nancois-Tronville 
where we were to entrain. After a wait of five hours 
our long line of box cars appeared and the battalion 
was crowded in them. 

REGNEVELLE 

At 5 A. M. Monday, the 20th of November, the 
train finally left the yards at Nanciso-Tronville and 
journeyed toward the south, the ride lasted until 7 
in the evening the same day, when we arrived at a 
station called Passavant, in the department of 
Vosges. From here the battalion proceeded on foot 
to the village of Martinsville about 4 kilos where 
Companies E. and F. were billeted and Companies 
G and H. hiked three kilos further to the little village 
of Rcgnevelle. We arrived there about midnif^ht and 
were at once billited, much to the joy of the men 
who were cold and vei-y tired. 

The Division was destined to remain in this area 
much longer than it was at first expected. For a 
while it was not known just when we would depart 
for the States and because of this the men were 
very impatient and discontented. 

Late in January, 1919, an order from G. H. Q. 
finally arrived which gave a list of the Divisions and 
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on the wrong end; we were not to start for home until 
about the aiiddle of June. It was rather disappoint- 
ing but we made the most of it. 

Soon after arriving in the area a new drill schedule 
was made up. Four hours ?n the morning were spent 
in going through various drills and one hour in the 
afternoon was devoted to athletics. 

This schedule was carried out in all kinds of 
weather and before Winter was over we were able 
to do squads right in the pouring rain or blinding 
snow, as the case happened without kicking or 
crabbing in the least. 

Several times a week the battalion performed 
sham battles and maneuvered in the course of which 
every hill and valley in the vicinity of Regnevelle, 
was captured. 

There was quite some competition between the 
companies and battalions, especially in the athletics, 
football r^ the leading sport, during the Winter. 

On Thanksgiving Day, Company "H" played Co. G. 
and defeated them 6 to 0. Later a strong battalion 
team was foi-med, the men being picked from the 
4 companies, which defeated most every team in the 
regiment. On February 26th, a final game was play- 
ed against the 3rd battalion for the championship 
of the 113th. It was the most exciting scrimmage 
of the season, and there were many Francs bet by 
both sides; after an hour of suspense our 
battalion proved themselves the better team by com- 
ing out on top, the final score being 6 to 0. 

In March the second battalion played the 114th 
Infantry for the championship of the 57th Brigade. 
Due to a few very bad plays we were defeated, and 
football ended for Company H. 

Early in December the Division sent its first con- 
tingent of furlough men to Aix le Bains, a leave 
area opened by A. E. F. After this there was a 
steady stream of fellows visiting different parts of 
France on furloughs, including Nice and Paris and 
several other noted cities at the expense of the 
Government. 

The furloughs were enjoyed by all who were lucky 
enough to get them, but on account of the small per- 
centage allowed from each company, it was impos- 
sible for everyone to obtain a furlough. Neverthe- 
less, Captain Smith made it a fair proposition for 
all the men, and as a result there was very little 
harranging. 

In the evening of the first of March, the Regne- 
relle Opera made its first appearance. It was com- 
posed of Company H's best talent and was a success 
from the start to finish. Under the guidance of 
Captain Smith, Sergeants Cooley and Dougherty and 
Private Greenberg, several shows were put on and 
each was met with approval. Now that Co. H. had 
its own stage. Captain Smith was able to obtain the 
shows which traveled on the Divisional circuit and 
Company H. had a pastime until it left Regnevelle. 



On March 24th the entire Division passed in review 
before the C. in C. General Pershing near Fresnes, 
The Commander-in-Chief made a personal inspection 
of each company, asking the men many questions. 
The colors were decorated by him for the battles in 
which the regiment participated. After passing in 
review the General gave a short speech in which 
he thanked the men for their faithfulness in battle 
and while waiting to go home. The review was held 
quite a distance from Regnevelle and because of tliis, 
the company was on the march for about three days. 

Before leaving the area a six week program in 
musketry was begun by the Infantry units of the 
Division. Much time was spent in rifle practice, fire 
control, etc., A field maneuver competition was held 
in the Battalion in which company H. came out 
second. 

Much to the suprise of everyone concerned, the 
Division was transferred into the S. 0. S. on April 6, 
1919. This meant that Co. H. would soon leave 
Regnevelle, which it did in five days later. The 
days preceeding our departure were given over to the 
cleaning up of Regnevelle. 

The little village looked its best when the boys of 
Company H. left. At 1 P. M. on April 11th, Company 
H. fell in with full packs and a little later were 
marching to Passavant. The people were very sorry 
to see us leave. The soldiers made life pelasant for 
them. At 5 P. M. the battalion entrained on Ameri- 
can box cars at Passavant and a little later, the jour- 
ney to La Mans area began. 

After a two days ride, the Company reached the 
town of Salignau-Sous-Ballon, where they were billit- 
ed in a splendid old chateau and where baseball and 
baths became the rule for each day, except for 
several inspections of an important nature, and 
which were necessary to fit us for return to the 
States. Everything was done with a will, however, 
since each one knew that the trip to America was 
on in earnest. 

Leaving this beautiful spot, the best we had been in 
France, the Company hiked 13 kilometers and board- 
ed the train for Saint Nazaire, our port of embarka- 
tion, arriving there on the 25th of April. Whatever 
may be said of other embarkation points, it was the 
concensus of opinion that Saint Nazaire was as 
nearly perfect as any place of the kind coula be — 
clean, comfortable barracks awaited us and the meals 
were excellent, while the sanitary conditions were all 
that could be desired. The final inspections were 
made, equipment issued and on the 7th of May, our 
last hike in France from the Camp to our transport 
was made, and at 4 P. M. all were safely stowed 
away on a clean, comfortable transport, named the 
U. S. S. lowan. 

This was our home for the next thirteen days and 
few regrets were expressed at leaving France. We 
all felt a good job had been done. We felt we had 

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done our share and were glad to be going home. 
Several stormy days were experienced, but in the 
main our trip over was a pleasant one and in the 
early moi-ning of the 20th of iVIay, the dim outlines 
of America were made out. How our hearts beat 
with gladness! How proud we were of our country. 
With what mingled emotions we again returned to 
our homeland, after an absence of almost a year, 
and what a year it had been! Full of trials, of suf- 
fering, of sorrow, of battle and here at last stretch- 
ing out before us was God's own Country. Surely 
we though, as we gazed upon the majestic greatness 
of New York, here was a country worth fighting for, 
aye worth dying for, better still worth living for. 

We went direct from Hoboken to Camp Dlx, New 
Jersey, arriving about 5 o'clock, the 20th of May. 

On the 22nd Captain Smith took his leave of the 
Company, thanking each one for their loyalty and 
devotion throughout the trying times and pointing to 
their record as one of which all may be proud. 

The Colonel took leave of his regiment in the fol- 
lowing general order, the last to be issued to us, as 
part of the 113th, U. S. Infantry. 
Headquarters 113th Infantry, 
Camp Dix, N. J. 

26 May, 1919. 
General Orders, No 10. 

1. Before the demobilization of the 113th Infan- 



try, I desire to give formal expression to my appre- 
ciation of the splendid work and spirit of the regi- 
ment and my admiration of and pride in its record, 
both in action and in camp. 

2. No organization in the Division has a finer 
combat record, none faced greater difficulties, none 
overcame them with more splendid dash, none held 
gains with stronger tenacity. 

3. The conduct of the men throughout the trying 
period during which it was my privilege to command 
the regiment, has exceeded my hopes. I am proud t» 
have served with such an organization. 

4. I wish to thank each member of the 113tk 
Infantry for the loyal support given me, as Regi- 
mental Commander. I feel the whole-hearted pur- 
pose of every officer and man was to secure the best 
results from and for his organization as I assure 
you that such was my sole purpose in any action I 
have taken. 

5. I congratulate you on the honorable record yoa 
are taking with you as the result of many months 
of devoted and trying service and I wish you all the 
success in future years that such a record deserves. 

6. This order will be published to each company 
of the regiment before demobilization. 

CHAS. B. FINLEY, 

Colonel, 113th Infantry. 




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After spending nine days on the Atlantic we 
arrived at Brest and went to a so-called rest camp 
for three days, althougji we didn't get much of it, 
as we were "On all kinds of detail. The one we all 
wanted to be on was the ration detail, as we always 
were sure to get eats, as we sure do like to eat. 

Here we slept in our dog tents, and while in this 
camp had nothing but rain. Right then and there 
I could see that the trip tver here wasn't going to 
be a vacation. 

After three days we loaded on those toy trains the 
French have which have signs on them — 40 Hommes, 
8 Cheveaux, and started on our way to Vaux, a sta- 
tion near Chalancey, our training camp. 

This trip we made in three days, in which I sure 
did take in the beautiful scenery. From Vaux to 
Chalancey it was a 12-mile hike, which was some 
hike over one mountain afte.r the other. We went 
through intensive training for about six weeks and 
then made our way to the reserve trenches. While 
in the reserve trenches we were getting used to the 
roaring of the guns, but it really wasn't very noisy, 
as it was a quiet sector, as we were preparing for 
the big drive. 

We left the reserve, after spending five days there, 
and went into the support trenches. In the reserve 
we lived in dugouts and got our first taste of rats 
crawling over our bodies while we slept, living in 
the damp, filthy holes. We had one platoon of men 
in our dugout, and such a lousy dump I never saw 
in my life. It was full of rats, cooties and flees, and, 
believe me, the nights down there were only night- 
mares. 

The dugout was a space boarded up on sides and 
•verhead, and supported by props and around the 
sides were bunks, arranged one above the other. The 
bunks were merely a frame with a wire screen over 
to lie on, and if your companion above you would get 
restless through the night the dirt would fall through 
the screen on you. 

Then we had rats to contend with. Every dough- 
boy or infantryman carries his ration of hardtack, 
canned "Willy" and bully beef with him at all times 
now, and we used the hardtack to put under our 
heads to lay down on to prevent the rats irom eat- 
ing it. Wc only received two scanty meals a day 
in the trenches, and hardtack came in mighty handy 
pretty often when we got hungry and the conserva- 

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tion of food was at its zenith. As soon as we dozed 
off the rats would commence nibbling on the hard- 
tack, which would waken us, and as soon as yo« 
moved they would scamper away. 

Well, we moved in the support trenches. 

Can you imagine trying to get sleep in a trench? 
These trenches, being exceptionally narrow, just wide 
enough for one body. So sometimes the head of 
one man would overlap the feet of another sleeping 
farther in. The man sleeping in back of me wor» 
hob-nailed shoes, that rested against my bare head, 
and every time he would cough or stretch in his 
sleep the hobs sank into my dome and my head sank 
into my shoulders. 

I will never forget the expression of some of the 
boys as we lay in the trenches. 

One of the boys said: "IVIy God, if my poor old 
mother could only see me now! I remember the tim* 
that if I went to the front door without my coat on 
she'd say, 'Now, John, don't do that, you might catck 
cold.' And we all laughed." 

On the night of September 25 we were ordered to 
make up our square packs and be ready to move any 
niinute to dugouts about a mile away, as the artillery 
barrage was expected to start around 1 A. M. of tho 
26th. 

Rifle in hand, pack on back, gas mask ready to 
use at a second's notice (as we always had gas 
alarms), and that is one fear we all had — "gas." 
We didn't fear the Hun as much as the deadly gas. 

At 12 o'clock midnight Wednesday we were on oni 
way, and finally reached our assigned dugout afte? 
ducking shells which the Germans were throwing 
over. They were always shelling the road and rail- 
heads, for if they could damage the roads it would 
prevent the Yankees from advancing more quickly; 
but the good work of the engineers was so great 
and swift that there was absolutely no holdups. 

At 11:30 sharp on the night of September 25 th« 
heavens lit up for miles around. We could see flares 
going up, and the roar of the cannon was deafening. 
The earth seemed to be rocking, and one could hardly 
believe it, but it is a fact, that some boys' ear dnima 
were affected by it. They had French 76s and 
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and ours' was a million dollar barrage; also that 
General Pershing said it would be either "Heaven, 
Hell or Hoboken" for us by Christmas. 

During this barrage they had wire cutters out cut- 
ting the barbed-wire entanglements in front of our 
trenches so that we could get through. 

At 2.30 A. M. Thursday the 26th, the Allied artil- 
lery began the barrage, Being 60 feet in a dugout, 
we couldn't hear much of the noise, and, eager to 
get an earful of it. I made my way up the wet stair- 
way of the dugout. It sure was a wonderful sight 
to see the flashes of fire of our cannon here and there 
and everywhere one could set his eyes. And the 
noise was deafening. First it was "bang," "bing," 
"whizz," and then some. Great, it was, and some- 
thing I shall never forget. 

At 5 o'clock A. M. I had a cup of hot coffee and a 
hardtack, and word came that we were to go over. 
The company formed; we were ready to get the Hun. 

Well, out of the trenches we went, over the top 
with a yell, "Up and at 'em, boys; let's give 'em hell." 
Up to noon that day we hadn't seen a sign of a 
Dutchman. We just crawled over the shell holes, 
some of them as big as the New York subway. 
About noon we ran into an awful heavy smoke, 
which hung right over a big swamp, and we couldn't 
see a hand in front of us. All of a sudden someone 
yelled, "Gas!" What a sensation! We didn't know 
who was aside of us. It might have been the Ger- 
mans. Well, I put my mask on in about two sec- 
onds and continued to go forward, when suddenly 
I found myself up to my knees in water. I got mad, 
ripped off my mask and went through the smoke 
O. K. 

When we passed the smoke we went up a high 
ridge, and this is where we got our first Germans. 

We now began to come under machine-gun fire. 
Whee! maybe those babies can't pump the lead out 
of them; but they didn't stop us. We went forward 
from one shell hole to another. Finally one Fritzie 
got my range. I could hear the bullets singing as 
they passed me. Down I flopped in a shell hole, 
and every time I put ray head up, zing, zing, they 
would fly over my head with a beautiful song. I 
couldn't locate the son of a gun, for there was a big 
woods about 300 yards on my left, but I knew he 
was in there, somewhere. All of a sudden the cap- 
tain of D Company fell in on top of me, and I yelled, 
"Keep down, a machine gun's playing on me." He 
said, "I know it. They chased me out of my hole." 

Well, \re laid there for over an hour, and every 
time we showed ourselves he would pop at us. He 
sure did mean business. Finally we both made one 
dash and soon we were safe in another hole. Later 
we got him with his machine gun in a tree top. 

Our officers were right with us all the time, not 
behind us, but in front of us, and every time we 
got caught in a barrage our officers would tell us 



to dig in, and they would be standing up, taking 
all kinds of chances. 

Our casualties for the first day out were not so 
heavy. When it got dark we were told to lie down 
and make the best of it. We were very tired from 
pushing on all day, and we flopped right in the 
mud and water. It was raining hard, and the nights 
were cold. The only protection we had were our 
overcoats and raincoats, having been relieved of our 
blankets and other equipment before we went over 
the top. 

During the night flares would go up that would 
illumine the earth. We would keep perfectly quiet, 
and then the Boche would send some whizz-bangs 
or high explosive shells over. One young fellow lay 
down with his head resting on his hands, when, 
during the night, a high explosive shell dropped near 
him and cut him from the waist down. The poor 
fellow never knew what struck him, as his head still 
rested on his hands when we left there. 

By this time our misery was so great that we 
didn't care whether we were knocked off or not. At 
sunrise we would push again. More than once our 
artillery would fall short. On one occasion we had to 
fall back a trifle, that being the only logical thing 
to do under the circumstances. 

"Artillery falling short. Pass the word back," we 
could hear being shouted as our own shells were 
dropping among our boys. This was due to the 
doughboys advancing more rapidly than the artillery 
could follow, the result of which was that we had to 
advance through a murderous artillery and machine- 
run fire without the support of our artillery fire. 
They had trouble in getting the artillery up on ac- 
count of mud and rain, and the French horses were 
gassed up and could only go a few kilometers and 
would be all in. We were over there to beat the 
Boche, and in war, where an objective can be gained, 
they don't consider casualties. 

We had an exceptionally hard territory to go 
through — one large hill after another with whizz- 
bangs flying all around us. One young fellow was 
about 10 feet to the left of me, when three or four 
machine-gun bullets clipped him in the neck and 
tore half his neck away. Lying in a pool of blood, 
he did not live long. 

Day after day and night after night it rained, and 
I remember we almost reached the top of the hill 
when we were told to dig in for the night. I took 
my little shovel and dug a hole and threw the dirt 
around me as a protection against shellfire. I was 
so tired I could hardly stand. I lay down and threw 
my raincoat over me, and when I woke up I was 
lying in water and my raincoat gone. Some fellow 
apparently thought I was knocked off and took the 
raincoat. Early that morning the Boches started 
a barrage on us, but their range was long and the 
shells were dropping to the left of us, not doing us 

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any harm, when, all of a sudden, I saw a Boche air- 
plane hovering above us. He took news of our posi- 
tion back to their artillery, and the scene that fol- 
lowed was one I'll never forget. That morning we 
could see arms, legs and human bodies flying in 
the air. 

The hillside was strewTi with bandages, broken 
pistols, shells and equipment of every sc-rt. Here 
and there were rotting limbs of men wlio had died 
and whose bodies had been torn again by the frenzy 
of German shells and hurled into the clean air from 
their burying place. Saplings that had been cut in 
two by machine-gun fire and gnarled bashes and 
stumps of shattered trees stuck their twisted forms 
out of the hill, like crippled men, showing their 
scars. 

We passed over a road where the carnage was 
something awful — dead French soldiers and our boys 
and horses partly blown apart, drivers lying beside 
their horses. They had been ti-ying to get rations 
and ammunition up to us, and the Boches shelled 
the road unmercifully. 

During the night they shelled us something awful, 
and all night long we could hear calls for "first aid." 
Some strong, some weak. It was just like a night- 
mare. That night I dug in, and a shell struck so 
close to me that it threw me bodily upon three 
other fellows quite a few yards away. One of the 
fellows said that he thought it was some poor fellow 
blown to bits, and when he stretched out his hands 
he expected to feel the insides of a man. We lay 
there and joked for a while, and I pulled out my 
tobacco bag, rolled a cigarette and smoked it under 
a raincoat, so the flare wouldn't show, when a shell 
broke near, and zing! something hit my helmet. It 
was a piece of shrapnel, and it sure did put a dent 
in my old derby- 

That morning we went into the woods again, 
and when we came out our company was knocked 
to hell. I don't know how many we lost there, but 
it sure did get a lot of our best boys. When I think 
of how some of them died with shrapnel and bullets 
in them I have to take my hat off. I sav; my bud- 
dies come out with arms hanging on by threads; 
one man shot in the mouth, and the blood choking 
him. WQiat a sight he was! Another shot in the 
stomach and breast, and one with machine-gun 
bullets in both legs. 

By this time we were so weak we could hardly 
stand. Our rations made us a\vfully thirsty, and 
drinking water was very, very scarce. We were 
told never to drink out of a shell hole, it may be 
contaminated, but more than one lad took a chance. 
We would have drunk gasoline if we could have 
gotten it. In the trencihes a pint would have to 
last us 32 hours. 

We bivouaced or dug in on the hill for the night, 
where the forms of both Gei-mans and Americans 
lay, and which is too ugly to write about. 

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We hadn't dug in and tried to sleep a couple of 
hours when it rained. All this time no rations came 
up to us and we were all in. Hungry we were, so 
we decided to steal the rations out of the dead 
men's packs. However, I managed to get three 
packages of hardtack and shared them with my 
pals. This taking off of dead men going against 
me, I decided I would go hungry a few more days, 
which I did. 

It was not until the morning of tlie fifth day that 
we got anything wann to eat or drink. Then we 
were given a quarter of a cupful of black coffee- We 
were then on the verge of collapse, shivering from 
the cold and exposure. Our clothes hadn't been dry 
for many a day, and one can easily imagine what 
good a little stimulant would have done us. The 
French soldier always had his ration of wine and 
the English his ration of rum, but they must have 
thoug'ht we were camels. 

We took our position on the hill, and by this 
time we were almost faint from hunger and thirst. 
Whenever we passed a shell hole with water in it 
we drank it, bugs and everything. Finally a fellow 
came up with some hardtack, and he asked if I was 
hungry. I swore at him, and he gave me a box and 
a drink of water from a can. 

As we were eating a shell fell in amongst us and 
killed three and wounded four. How I escaped I 
cannot tell. I was blinded. The smoke filled my 
eyes and lungs. I was burning up, and when I open- 
ed my eyes I found myself Ij-ing on the ground. 
The water just streaming from my eyes and kept 
on doing so for 12 days after. 

At last we were relieved. We could see our 
relief coming over the hill. "Hurry up! Gee! thy're 
slow, but steady." It was then five buddies and my- 
self became separated from our outfit and we went 
sightseeing in Montfaucon, with Fritzie still drop- 
ping an occasional shell in the toii\Ti. What a sight 
to behold! Not a thing in that town untouched- 
Dead horses and blood just filled the place. Our 
artillery sure did clean them out. It was now that 
the fierceness of it all dawned on me. As I walked 
back over the gi-ound we had taken I saw our boys 
lying dead here and there, some with their heads 
blown off. I saw one that was hit with a shell, thait 
ripped his clothes right off! I just had to sit down 
and cry. 

That day we went back to the trenches where we 
came from and spent two more days and nigfets in 
them, and then started on a never-to-be-forgotten 
five-day hike to a rest camp, as they called it. On 
this hike men fell out by the dozens. They cried and 
kept on until they fell down exhausited. I stuck it 
out, and we finally reached the woods and were put 
in shacks. 

Well, what happened afterthat I will tell you when 
I get home, as I am now getting writers' cramp. 

Best regards to all. » « * * 



IN THE WORLD WAR 



Milltowim FraimclliiirmKeini Amiswoir 



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War was declared on France by Germany, August 
4, 1914. Word was sent to the French at Mill- 
town on August 5, and on the 6th trolley cars 
loaded with Frenchmen left for France and they 
were fighting in the front line trenches on Aug. 26, 
twenty days after leaving Milltown. 

Eighty-six Frenchmen, residents of Milltown in 
1914, responded to the call to arms of their native 
coxmtry in August of that year, and can be traced 
as having faithfully done their duty at the place 
assigned them in the organization of the land's de- 
fence. 

The following eighteen made the gi'eat sacrifice, 
making the blood price paid by Milltown's French 
colony for the allied victory as high as twenty-one 
per cent of its male population: 

Chevalier, Emile — Gassed, died of the poison since 
the Armistice. 

Collet, E — Killed in action in Champagne. 

Cretau, F. — Killed on August 15, 1918, on the 
Somme. 

Delin, G. — Died in a hospital in Lyons. 

Falchier — (Presumed killed in action. Reported 
missing after the first battle of the Mame, Sep- 
tember, 1914.) 

Le Fichant, V. — Killed in Argonne Forest, 1914. 

Fournier, S. — Killed in action in Belgium in 1914. 

Guillot, F. — Killed in atcion in Belgium in 1914. 

Lamy — Killed in atcion in Alsace, 1914. 

Mazieres, F. — Killed in action in 1917, in the Aisne. 

De Monteleon, G.— Killed at Verdun, 1917. 

De Monteleon, E.— Killed in Belgium, 1914. 

Poignonnec, P. — Killed in Champagne, 1915. 

Queignec, P. — Killed on the Somme, 1916. 

Riou, J.— Killed in Flanders, 1915. 

Redon, G. — (Presumed killed in action. Reported 
missing after an engagement at Alsace in 1914.) 

The following is a list of the French people, resi- 
dents of Milltown in 1914, who served their country 
during the war, many of them nearing the age limit 
of 48, up to which all Frenchmen were enlisted ,un- 
less they had six children: 

Bridier, S. — Infantry Captain, started in the war 
as sergeant, four times cited for bravery, croix de 
guerre. Legion of Honor. 

Cholet, P. — Blue Devils, later Franco-American 
Aviation Corps, started as a private in 1914 and 
made captain on the battlefields. Croix de guerre, 
five citations, twice wounded. 

Dhavemaz, J. — Artillei-y Captain, French high 
commission in the United States. 



Amadieu, L. — Lieutenant, Cavalry, armored cars. 
Started as a sergeant, cited twice for bravery, Croix 
de guerre, served with the American Expeditionary 
Forces for a few months. 

Bourgade, J. — Lieutenant, Quarteramster Corps, 
once wounded. 

Fleurant, F.— Lieutenant, French High Commis- 
sion in the United States. 

Gele, E. — Lieutenant, Artillery Technical Section. 

Gorends, L. — Head Officer, Field Ambulance. 

Jumet, E — Lieutenant, Engmeers Corps, Railway 
Division. 

Salomon, P. — Lieutenant, Infantry, five times cited 
for bravery, croix de guerre, twice wounded. 

Vauchez, J. — Lieutenant, Artillery, French High 
Commission in the United States. 

Gatherias — Artillery, Sub-Lieutenant, instructor to 
the American Army, Medaille Militaire. 
Non Commissioned Officers, Corporals and Privates: 

Barrere, P. — Siege Artillery. 

Bartherotte, P.— Infantry. 

Baury, J. B. — Artillery Technical Section. 

Belin, H — Blue Devils. 

Bemard, J. — Once wounded, once cited for bravery, 
croix de guerre. 

Bernard, Louis — Infantry, croix de guerre, once 
cited for bravery. 

Berthelot, Y.— Infantry. 

Bordel, C. — Ordnance Departmen.t 

Breat — Infantry. 

Chardonnet, Th.— Infanti-y- 

Coojean, J. — Infantry, once cited for bravery. 

Cazic, P. — Infantry. 

David, M. — Engineers Division, Radio Operator. 

Daviou, L. — Siege Artillery, once cited for bravery, 
croix de guerre. 

Decelle, L.— Blue Devils. 

Domas, G. P. — Artillery Technical Section. 

Evennou, R. — Infantry. 

Fabre, H.— Infantry. 

Farbat, S.— Infantry. 

Fraisse, A. — Woimded in Champagne, 1915. 
Gaydier, J.— Infantry. 

Garde, E.— Infantry and later on Engineers, as 
radio operator. 

Genet, J.— Blue Devils. 

Gorgeon, J. — Infantry. 

Goaec, J. — Ordnance Department. 

Grand, G. — Croix de guerre, once cited for bravery. 

Grange, A. — Blue Devils, twice cited for bravery, 
Italian war medal, croix de guerre. 

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Grangemarre, A. — Ordinance Department. 

Guemigou, J. — Artillery Technical Section. 

Jegou, J. M. — Infantry, croix de guerre, four 
times cited for bravery, twice wounded. 

Kervran, J. — Infantry, wounded in Champagne, in 
1915, croix de gueire, cited for bravery. 

Lafarge, J. . — Blue Devils. 

Lann, J. — Infantry- 

Laz, Y. — Infantry. 

Le Gall, F.— Infantry. 

Le Guillou, L. — Infanti-y, twice wounded, once 
cited for bravery, croix de guerre. 

Le Naour, J. — Infantry. 

Le Roux, L.— Infantry. 

Le Rouzic, J. — Marine, Medaille Militaire, cited for 
bravery, croix de guerre, wounded. 

Maguet, J. M. — Artillery- 

Mallegol, J. — Ordnance, Department. 

Median — Infantry. 



Miossec, J. F. — Infantry. 

Miossec, F. — Infantry. 

Mitton, L. — Naval Coast Artillery. 

Pialoux, A. — Croix de guerre, cited for bravery. 

Pichaudon — Infantry. 

Poignonnec, J. — Infantry, cited for bravery, croix 
de guerre. 

Queignac, J. — Infantry. 

Renoux, A. — Artillery Technical Department. 

Rousselot, F. J. — Engineers. 

Schlumberger, P. — French Field Artillery with the 
Belgian Army, twice wounded, twice cited for brav- 
ery. 

Suignard, N. — Infantry, wounded in Artois, in 1914 
after having been wounded served in a gun powder 
plant. 

Vaury, J. — Ordnance Department. 

Villecourt, C. — Infantry- 



Til® Umted Sftates Takes O^er ftlke Maircomii Sftatnomi 



As soon as the United States declared war upon 
Germany, it took over the Radio Station on Easton 
avenue, and placed it under the direction of the Navy. 
On April 7, 1917, a detachment of marines were put 
on guard and remained until May, 1920- 

Late in October, 1917, the Washington key which 
actuated the great wireless station in New Bruns- 
wick, N. J., clicked off 

This translated from the telegraph code into the 
alphabet reads: 

P_0_Z— DE— N— F— F 

And then in quick succession: 
"POZ— POZ— POZ— de— NFF— NFF— NFF" 

This fairly electrified the men in the station: 

"Washington is calling Germany direct" — Some- 
thing extraordinary! 

"POZ" is the call for the Nauen station in the 
outskirts of Berlin, and "de NFF" meant "From New 
Brunswick, U. S- A." Thus all diplomatic precedents 



had been shattered by direct communication between 
two nations at war- Shortly the message came 
from Nauen that they were in receipt of the call. 

Then followed the historic note of President Wil- 
son demanding the abdication of the Kaiser, stating 
thart. the .American Government would not negotiate 
•with any but the German people direct. So, from 
the very beginning the negotiations leading up to 
the armistice were conducted through the New 
Brunswick, N. J., Naval Radio Station. 

Every day New Bi-unswick communicated with 
San Francisco and San Diego, Cal., with Admiral 
Sims' flagship in British waters; also with Paris, 
Rome and Wales. Secretary Daniels "spoke" to 
President Wilson through the New Bruns\vick station 
while on board the George Washington in the mid- 
dle of the Atlantic Ocean. 

The wireless telegraph of the "George Washing- 
ton" received New Brunswck messages continually 
and kept President Wilson informed of world and 
home events while on the high seas. 




GEORGE JONES HAS AN ARGUMENT 
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Final revised figures of casualties during the war 
compiled by the War Department, together with an 
analysis of the casualties by States, shows that Mon- 
tana and Connecticut lead by a considerable margin. 
New York and Pennsylavnia are naturally far ahead 
in the actual number of casualties. 

The revised figures igive the total casualties of the 
American forces in the war as 302,612, divided as 
follows : 

Killed in action 34,248 

Died of disease 23,430 

Died of wounds 13,700 

Died of accident 2,019 

Drowned 300 

Suicide 272 

Murder or homicide 154 

Executed by sentence, general court-martial 10 

Other known causes 489 

Causes undetermined 1,839 

Presumed dead 650 

Total dead 77,118 

Prisoners unaccounted for 15 

Prisoners died 147 

Prisoners repatriated 4,270 

Total prisoners 4,432 

Wounded slightly 91,189 

Wounded severely 83,390 

Wounded, degree undetermined 46,480 

Total wounded 221,050 

Missing in action 3 

Grand total 302,612 



CASUALTIES BY STATES 



Casjualties 

Montana 3,443 

Connecticut 6,265 

Wyoming 676 

Pennsylvania 35,042 

North Dakota 2,560 

New York 40,222 

Wisconsin 9,913 

Idaho 1,351 

Massachusetts .13,505 



C£ 

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isualties 
1000 of 


Dead population 


934 


9.1 


1,265 


5.6 


233 


4.6 


7,898 


4.5 


700 


4.43 


9,196 


4,41 


2,649 


4.2 


409 


4.1 


2,955 


4.01 



New Jersey 10,166 2,367 

Oklahoma 6,358 1,471 

Michigan 10,369 2,751 

New Hampshire 1,535 358 

Minnesota 7,323 2,133 

Ohio 16,007 4,082 

Vermont 1,170 300 

Iowa 7,311 2,161 

Illinois 18,264 4,260 

West Virginia 4,018 1,063 

South Dakota 1,867 554 

Kansas 5,182 1,270 

Nevada 250 71 

Maryland 3,812 975 

Missouri 10,385 2,562 

Virginia 6,130 1,635 

Rhode Island 1,562 1,836 

Tennessee 6,190 1,836 

California 6,650 1,747 

Arizona 557 150 

Utah 1,006 302 

Maine 2,090 518 

New Mexico 860 228 

North Carolina 5,799 1,610 

Texas 10,133 2,722 

South Carolina 3,919 1,138 

Nebraska 3,041 855 

Washington 3,070 877 

Alabama 5,160 1,251 

Kentucky 5,380 1,436 

Oregon 1,577 512 

District of Columbia^... 773 202 

Colorado 1,759 537 

Indiana 5,766 1,510 

Arkansas 2,658 683 

Georgia 4,425 1,630 

Delaware 303 87 

Louisiana 2,169 823 

Mississippi 2,303 904 

Florida 1,171 467 

Alaska 15 6 

Hawaii 13 4 

Porto Rico 12 1 

Philippines 7 3 

Canal Zone 3 2 

New Jersey's Share of Human Sacrifices 
Dead and 7,799 Wounded. 



4.006 

3.8 

3.6 

3.55 

3.52 

3.3 

3.288 

3.286 

3.22 

3208 

3.1 

3.09 

3.05 

3.0L 

3.009 

2.9 

2,83 

2,83 

2.76 

2.72 

2.69 

2.68 

2.66 

2.62 

2.6 

2.58 

2.55 

2.51 

2.4 

2.349 

2.344 

2.33 

2.2 

2.1 

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1.4 

1.3 

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Esu Moim 



More than four times as many lives were lost in 
the four and a half years of the great war as were 
sacrificed in all the Napoleonic conflicts from 1790 
to 1815. More than twice as many persons were 
killed as in the preceding century and a quarter from 
the French Revolution in 1789 to the close of the 
Balkan wars in 1913. Such are the astounding con- 
clusions of statisticians. 

Country Known Dead Severely Wounded 

Russia 1,762,064 1,000,000 

France 1,427,800 700,000 

Great Britain 807,451 617,740 

Serbia 707,343 322,000 

Italy 507,160 500,000 

Roumania 839,117 200,000 

Belgium ..._ 267,000 40,000 

United States 117,151 43,000 

Greece _ 15,000 10,000 

Portugal „... 4,000 5,000 

Japan 300 400 

Total, Allies 5,954,386 3,438,140 

Germany _ 1,611,104 1,600,000 

Austria-Hungary .... 911,000 850,000 

Turkey 436,974 107,772 

Bulgaria 101,224 300,000 

Total enemies 3,060,302 2,857,772 

Grand total 9,014,688 6,295,912 

Estimates vary geratly as to the money cost of the 
war. The Copenhagen War Study Society made it 
$18,785,000,000 for the first year and $33,065,000,000 
for the second. Another authority figured the third 
year at $39,247,900,000. This would make $91,097,- 
900,000. These are close to the figures of the Lib- 
erty Loan Bureau of the Treasury Department, which 



estimated the cost for the three years at $89,721,- 
500,000. The Swiss Bank of Geneva estimated that 
the lourth year cost as much as the other three years 
together, which would make the total cost $180,000,- 
000,000. Secretary Baker's figures to the close of the 
war were $197,000,000,000. Edgar Crammond, the 
English statistician, figured it at $210,175,000,000, 
while Ernest L. Bogart,, of the University of Illinois, 
made it somewhat less, or $186,333,637,097, with in- 
direct costs of $151,612,542,560, to total of $337,946,- 
179,657. The net cost, deducting advances by one 
state to another, are thus given: 
Country Net Cost 

Great Britain $35,334,011,868 

France 24,265,582,800 

United States 22,625,252,843 

Russia „ 22,593,950,000 

Italy _ 12,413,998,000 

British Colonies 4,493,813,072 

Other Allies 3,963,867,914 

Total cost to Allies $125,690,476,497 

Germany $37,775,000,000 

Austria-Hungary 20,622,960,600 

Bulgaria _ - 1,245,200,000 

Turkey _ 1,000,000,000 

Total cost to enemies $60,643,160,600 

Grand total $186,333,637,097 

While these tables probably are approximately cor- 
rect, they give little idea of the damage inflicted on 
each country, which obviously depends on the coun- 
trj''s population and resources. Serbia, for instance, 
lost about sixteen per cent, of her entire population, 
while Russia, losing more than twice as many men, 
had her population impaired only about one per cent. 



Orgaimizaidoini ©IF Itlne Ainni@irieas.iffi Legioim 



The American Legion organized in New Bruns- 
wick on July 10, 1919. The Post was named 
Charles Henry Post in honor of the first man from 
this city to make the supreme sacrifice on the bat- 
tlefield of France. 

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The first officers chosen were: Commander, Capt 
J. Bayard Kirkpatrick; Vice Commander, Capt. 
Herbert W. Nafey; Adjutant, Lieut. Franklin M. 
Ritchie; Finance Officer, Walter H. Smith; Histo- 
rian, Chester R. Holeman. 



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Throughout the period of hostilities, Rutgers Col- 
lege, which was chartered as Queens College by- 
George III of England, on November 10, 1766, and 
which has been located in New Bininswick since 1771, 
performed meritorious service for the United States, 
both as an institution and through its alumni and 
undergraduates. With the declaration of war with 
Germany in April, 1917, the college at once for- 
mally pledged its unqualified loyalty to the cause, 
and offered its fullest co-operation with the govern- 
ment in all matters pertaining to the successful car- 
rying on of the war. At the same time. President 
D. H. S. Demarest, with the sanction of the Board 
of Trustees, placed the resources of the college, its 
land, buildings, equipment, and educational forces, 
at the disposal of the State. Special emphasis was 
laid upon the course in Military Science,, and an 
extra two-hour period granted for military training. 
After the first flurry of excitement had passed, the 
college settled down to something of its usual rou- 
tine; but during the period from April to June, 1917, 
two hundred and six undergraduates were released 
from their college obligations in order to enter some 
form of government service. 

The first complete war year of the college was 
begun on September 19, 1917, with an enrollment of 
451, a decrease of 61 from the preceding yeai-. Major 
John Bigelow, U. S. A., retired, was detailed by the 
War Department as Professor of Military Science 
and Tactics, and with the aid of four assistants, 
gradually perfected the working organization of the 
military department. In September, the War Serv- 
ice Bureau of Rutgers College was organized "for 
the purpose of keeping Rutgers men in touch with 
the college and with one another." This bureau, 
which as far as can be ascertained was the only 
one of its kind among the American colleges, per- 
formed splendid service for alumni and undergradu- 
ates, sending monthly news letters to all Rutgers 
men in the Army and Navy, answering personal 
questions, notifying the alumni body of possible gov- 



ernment openings, and compiling and preserving the 
records of the activities of Rutgers men in the war. 

With the beginning of the second term in January, 
1918, the student enrollment had fallen to 387. The 
military department increased its scope of activi- 
ties; a course in Radio-Communication was given by 
the Department of Electrical Engineering at the re- 
quest of the authorities at Washington, and war 
courses in various lines of agriculture were offered 
at frequent intervals at the College Farm. The aca- 
demic year was brought to a close on May 21st, in 
Older to permit the undergraduates to enter upon 
government work as soon as possible. At the 152nd 
commencement, the degree of Doctor of Laws was 
conferred upon Secretary of the Navy Josephus 
Daniels. 

In October, 1918, shortly after the beginning of 
the 153rd year of the college, a Students' Army 
Training Corps was established at Rutgers. Under 
this plan, all students over eighteen years of age 
and of the required physical fitness were voluntarily 
inducted into the service of the United States and 
were subject to military discipline. They received 
the pay of a private, their uniform and equipment; 
and their tuition, board and lodging were paid to the 
college Dy the government. The campus, therefore, 
was virtually turned into an army camp. 

During the last week in September, James C. Tor- 
pey. First Lieutenant, U. S. A., was detailed by the 
War Department as Commanding Officer of the Stu- 
dents' Army Training Corps. Associated with him 
were seven second lieutenants, recent graduates from 
Plattsburg. Lieutenant Torpey proceeded at once to 
perfect plans for the organization of the S. A. T. C, 
and at noon, Ti'esday, October 1, induction exercises 
were held on the college campus. Thereafter, mili- 
tary work superceded the academic. The two col- 
lege dormitories and three of the fraternity houses 
were turned into army barracks; the dining room in 
Winants Hall, with some material changes, was 
transformed into a mess room; special courses of 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



study were adopted; and military headquarters es- 
tablished in the Ballantine gj-mnasium- The ordi- 
nary working day started di 6:15 with reveille; the 
other items in the schedule included the following: 
7.00, breakfast; 8.00-10.00, classes; 10.00-12.00, drill; 
12.00-1.00, dinner; 1.00-5.00, classes; 5.00-5.15, re- 
treat; 5.30, supper; 7.00-9.00, study; 10.00, taps. Fol- 
lowing the establishment of the militai-y organiza- 
tion, the college settled do-s\Ti to a routine of in- 
tensive work- 

The Y. M. C. A. carried on a program similar to 
that of the regular anny camps, and the football 
team completed its schedule of games. But for the 
most part, the interest of the student body was con- 
fined to purely military subjects. 

In accordance with the purpose of the Training 
Corps, namely, the selection of the best qualified 
undergraduates for further training for commissions 
in the United States Army, ten undergraduates were 
selected for additional work at Camp Lee, Va., and 
were transferred to that place on November 2nd. 
Meanwhile, the military organization of the college 
had been steadily increasing in efficiency, until on 
November 11, 1918, when the announcement of the 
signing of the Armistice was made, the machinery 
was i-unning with commendable smoothness and gave 
sure promise of the accomplishment of the purpose 
for which it was established. With the cessation of 
hostilities, however, it was apparent that the work 
of the Corps would not long continue; and on De- 
cember 14, 1918, word having been received from 
Washington, the Students' Army Training Corps 
was foi-mally discontinued and the undergraduate 
members discnarged from the sei-vice of the United 



So ended a unique chapter in the history of Rut- 



gers College. But the service of the college in 
training potential officers through its S. A. T. C. was, 
of course, only a small part of its total contribution 
to the United States in the dark days of the war. 
Exclusive of the 361 members of the S. A. T. C, 854 
Rutgers men were enlisted in the Military and Naval 
forces; 401 of these served in France, and 453 in 
the United States. The total number of Rutgers men 
in uniform was 1,215, representing 35 per cent, of 
the entire undergraduate and alumni body. And 
there were, moreover, hundreds of Rutgers gradu- 
ates in supplementary work .which in many cases 
was fully as essential as actual participation on the 
field of battle. There were 435 Rutgers men com- 
missioned; of these, two were major generals, one 
a brigadier general, two colonels, four lieutenant 
colonels, 26 majors, 6 captains, 116 first lieutenants, 
182 second lieutenants, one lieutenant commander, 
three sergeoiis, five junior lieutenants, 30 ensigns. 
Of the men in service, exclusive of the S. A. T. C, 
51 per cent, were commissioned; and of those who 
were members of classes prior to 1914, 75 per cent, 
received commissions. Twenty-three sons of the col- 
lege died in the service of the nation, and 24 were 
wounded in action. Seventeen were decorated by the 
United States or foreign governments, and eleven 
were cited for meritorious service or exceptional 
bravery in action. 

The record of Rutgers College in the Great War 
is one to which New Brunswick may well point with 
pride. To the splendid achievements of her sons in 
the four wars which have taken place in the first 
century and a half of her life, Rutgers may now set 
down with equal satisfaction the deeds of the 
younger generation of graduates and undergraduates 
in the years which have just past. 




Tlhi® Riuiitgers Preparatory School m ihe War 



Soon after war was declared, and before the spring 
tei-m closed, one of the teacher.: and several of the 
graduating class enlisted. All of the teachers but 
the Headmaster and First Assistant enlisting during 
the summer and were sent to various officers' train- 
ing camps. Military intsruction was revived at the 
opening of the fall term, and a company was or- 
ganized and uniformed. Mr. G. W. Nuttman re- 
turned to the position of Drill Master, which he had 

One hundred fifty-two 



previously held for many years. 

With the opening of school in the fall of 1918, 
the entire school, including the four preparatorj' 
classes and the two highest classes in the Elemen- 
tary School, were unifoi-med and drilled by Regular 
Army Lieutenants from the S. A. T. C, throughout 
the year. They were organied into three platoons 
under the usual cadet officers, chosen by competitive 
examination on the study of the Infantiy Drill Regu- 



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lations. Diill was conducted out of doors for six 
hours a week throughout the year. Dummy rifles 
wei-e used, as it was impossible to procure cadet 
rifles. The "best soldier" in 1917 was Cadet Captain 
Clarence J. Hofer; in 1918, Cadet Captain William 
P. Kelly, Jr., and these names were inscribed on the 
School Tablet donated for this purpose in 1898, by 
the class of that year. 

A large number of graduates and foi-mer teachers 
of that school held commissions in the Army, Navy, 
and Flying Corps, and many others served in the 
ranks. A bronze tablet commemorating three of its 
graduates who made the supreme sacrifice, was erect- 
ed by the classes of 1918 and 1919, to 
JOYCE KILMER, 
DANIEL SMART, 
MICHAEL HERSHMANN. 

A silk regimental flag was presented to the Cadet 
Company by the class of 1916- 



Throughout the War the spirit of the school was 
vibrant with patrioitic pui-pose. The war issues were 
discussed, the progress of war campaigns was re- 
viewed ,and the students were set to work on such 
things as pupils could do. The boys studied their 
daily lessons with a marked increase of purpose, be- 
lieving that they were preparing, possibly for army 
life, and surely for reconstruction work after the 
war. 

The contributions to War Activities reflected this 
spirit. The United War Workers' Fund received 
$645.89, the Red Cross $453, Second Liberty Loan 
$200, a Village in France $100, and other objects 
smaller sums, making a total of $1,528.64. The 
school at this time enrolled 75 in the Preparatory 
School proper, and 131 in the Elementary Depart- 
ment, and such an outpouring of benevolence was 
most creditable. 



M<Bw Eimm§,wmh High Behoof i> 



Throughout the entire period of the war the stu- 
dents took their part in all of the activities. Evei-y 
student was a member of the Junior Red Cross. 
The girls prepared 5,800 surgical dressings, 50 knit- 
ted garments and 200 miscellaneous articles. Lib- 
erty bonds to the amount of $11,900 were pur- 
chased and $5,700 in Thrift Stamps. The amount 
contributed to the United War Workers' Fund was 
$2,108 and $375 to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memo- 
rial Fund. Seven French war orphans were cared for 
by the school- 



There were enrolled in the Ai-my, Navy and Fly- 
ing Corps 255 former students. Of this number five 
were wounded and five gave (their lives for world- 
wide liberty. The school has erected a tablet in 
the memory of those who made the supreme sacri- 
fice: 

JOSEPH CORSO, 

ARTHUR GOWEN, 

SAMUEL NOVINS, 

JACOB POLLINS, 

LAWRENCE QUAL. 



St. Peter'« school sent out two hundred and 
twenty-six of the boys thajt passed through hei- 
doors to answer the call to the Colors. Among 
those being Lieutenant Commander Frank J. Daly 
and Lieutenant John L. Donnigan of tlie Navy, and 
in the Ai-my Captain J. Leo Daly, in the Quarter- 
masters depai-tment, Captain Wm. J. Condon and 
First Lieutenant John F. McGovem in tlhe Medical 
Depai-tment; Captain Harold Flannigan in ithe Den- 



tal Corps. Also Lieutenant Joseph A. McGovem 
in the Engineei-s. All of whom saw active service 
in France. 

The Sacred Heart School sent out its propor- 
tion as did the Hungarian, Italian and St. John's 
German Catholic School, to this school belongs the 
honor of having one of its pupils, Charles Henry, 
to be the first New Brunswick boy to offer his life 
on the battle fields of France. 

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Among Ihe many problems that arose in the orig- 
inal consideration of the successful prosecution of the 
war was the establishment of an ordnance depot 
near the Port of Embarkation of New York, capable 
of receivinij, storing and shipping immense quanti- 
ties of material for the use of the military forces 
of the United States and her Allies overseas- The 
necessity for -such a depot gave rise to the selection 
of the site now generally known as Camp Raritan 
and officially as Raritan Arsenal. 

The arsenal properties were acquired under re- 
quisitions of January 8, January 25 and February 
2, 1918, and embrace about 2,220 acres. 

There were built 172 barracks, 29 mess halls, and 
29 latrines, together with a 200-bed hospital. The 
building program at the arsenal called for the erec- 
tion of magazines and other buildings, as well as 
about 53 miles of railways, locomotive houses, docks 
and incidental equipment amounting to over four- 
teen million dolalrs. 

Raritan Arsenal became one of the most import- 
ant in the United States and from February until 
November, 1918, 333,038 gross tons of munitions 
were handled, 187,446 tons were received and stored 
in the magazines, 78,342 tons were shipped, includ- 
ing shipments by lighters over seas, domestic, truck 
and express orders; 67,251 tons were transferred 
from one magazine to another. These figures rep- 
resent the gross tonnage of the material itself. In 
estimating the total tonnage actually handled by the 
men all material transferred and shipped by way of 
the docks was handled twice. This would double 
the tonnage actually handled, on these two items. 

From the docks alone there were shipped by ligh- 
ter 52,239 tons, loaded on 161 lighters and shipped 
overseas. 



From the standpoint of carload lots, the men un- 
loaded 5,294 cars or a daily average of 17. The 
number of cars actually shipped out of the reserva- 
tion amounted to 755 or two cars daily. 

On September the 6th, seventy-two cars were un- 
loaded and ninety-two loaded, requiring the semces 
of 1,418 men, not including checkers and foremen. 
The accomplishments for this banner day shows a 
total of 164 cars. 

The month of August was the busiest, 66,510 tons 
were handled this month. More cars were received 
and unloaded than in any other month. In Septem- 
ber records were made in transfers and shipping. 

During the busiest months labor details averaged 
between 700 and 900 men per day. In the month 
of Augfust they averaged from 800 to 1,200; the 
docks alone averaging about 300. 

The training activities of the camp commenced 
January 14, 1918, with the arrival of 70 men and 
two officers. During the month of August the per- 
sonnel reached a strength of 6,519 men. On Novem- 
ber 11, 1918, there was 458 officers and 5,867 men 
on duty, making a total of 6,325 in camp when the 
ai-mistice was signed. 

On September 1, the first unit was organized and 
shipped for service in France. On July 13, the Mili- 
tary Police began their work in this section, and the 
force, numbering 125 men, worked in New Brans- 
wick, Perth Amboy, Plainfield, Bound Brook and 
Metuchen. They were a great aid to the civil au- 
thorities at all times. They were demobilized Feb- 
ruary 21, 1919. 

The camp was imder the command of Lieutenant 
Colonel J. H. M. Andrews, to whose untiring efforts 
much of the success of the camp is due. 




THE ORteiMAU KITCHEN PO\.\Ce. 



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NEW BRUNSWICK 



When on April 6, 1917, the Congress recognized 
the existence of a state of war between the Im- 
perial German Government and the people of the 
United States, it became necessary immediately to 
mobilize, not alone the physical, but the mental and 
spiritual powers of America. 

There was no lack of patriotism on the part of 
the American people, but there was a failure to 
fully appreciate the existing and threatening danger 
and the duty that every man, woman and child owed 
to the country, together with the good each could 
do. 

This could only be accomplished by a campaign 
of education, those in authority appreciating the 
fact that when our people understood what they 
should and could do, there would be no qeustion about 
the result. 

It was, therefore, in March, 1917, decided to or- 
ganize a group of speakers for the purpose of carry- 
ing whatever message the authorities in Washing- 
ton thought proper and advantageous to the people. 

The title "Four-Minute Men" was given in dual 
reference to the Minute Men of the Revolutionary 
War and to the time limit necessarily imposed upon 
speakers who were to appear during brief intei-mis- 



sions in Theaters, Moving Picture Houses and, in 
fact, every place where people congregated. 

The New Brunswick organization of Four-Minute 
Men constituted of the following gentlemen: 

SAMUEL SCHLEIMER, Chainnan, 

PROF. LIVINGSTON BARBOUR, 

DR. LEON CHAMBERLAIN, 

HON. PETER F. DALY, 

DR. WILLIAM H. S. DEMAREST, 

DR. HENRY HALE GIFFORD, 

DR. JASPER S. HOGAN, 

SAMUEL HOFFMAN, 

DR. J. A. INGHAM, 

DR. W. W. KNOX, 

DR. JOSEPH B. KULP, 

PROF. JOHN H. LOGAN. 

DR. G. H. PAYSON, 

DR. HERBERT PARRISH, 

MILTON J. PREGER, 

FREDERICK RICHARDSON, 

FRANK H. SKINNER, 

A. C. STREITWOLF, 

DR. AUSTIN SCOTT, 

FREEMAN WOODBRIDGE, 

RUSSELL E. WATSON. 




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SluimimiisiBry olF ftHa® L©cail Daily Eveimlhs 



MARCH, 1917. 
Board of Trade adopts unanimous resolution to 
support the President. 
Home Defence League proposed. 
Rutgers graduates and upper classmen apply in 
large numbers for commissions in the Officers' 
Reserve Corps. 

Home Defense League organized at a meeting 
of 200 men. Spanish-Ameriacn War veterans, 
offer services to Mayor Farrington. 
Company H ordered to mobilize. 
Company H mustered into the Federal service. 

APRIL, 1917. 
City Commissioners vote $3,000 to the Home 
Defense League. 

Filtration plant, reservoir and pumping station 
placed under guard. 

Co. H leaves for Trenton. War declared. 
U. S. Marines put on guard at the Marconi 
Station. 

MAY, 1917. 
Over 2,000 members secured for the local Red 
Cross. 

Greatest Memorial Day celebration ever held 
in the city. 

JUNE, 1917. 
Big Mass Meeting at Ballantine Gymnasium 
to boost the Liberty Loan. 
Exemption Board appointed. 
French Commission visits the wireless station. 

JULY, 1917. 
Home Defense Guard ordered to South River 
to preserve order. 
Big Fourth of July celebration. 
Warning issued that any person found walking 
along the shore or path near the railroad bridge 
would be arrested. 

Raymond Grimes is the first name to be drawn 
in the draft. 

AUGUST, 1917. 
Peter E. Vlieit is the first man to pass physical 
examination for military duty. 
National Guardsmen mobilize at Buccleuch 
Park, the battalion consisting of 425 men. 
First Battalion hikes to mobilization camp near 
Trenton. 

SEPTEMBER, 1917. 
First five men for National Army leave for 
Camp Dix. 

Over 2,000 participate in parade held in honor 
of Co. H and drafted men. 
Mayor Farmington and large delegation visit 
Camp Dix. 

OCTOBER, 1917. 
Home Guards reorganized. 



3. Co. H arrives at Camp McClellan, Alabama. 

4. General Goethals elected president of the 
Wright-Martin Aircraft corporation. 

26. New Brunswick Lodge of Elks takes $25,000 in 
Liberty Bonds. 

NOVEMBER, 1917. 

2. Coal dealers give notice that only one ton of 
coal will be delivered to customers at a time. 

3. Twenty-one thousand housewives in Middlesex 
county sign food consei-vation pledge cards. 

19. Fifty-five boys leave for Camp Dix. 

20. City Commissioners vote $1,000 for work of 
the Home Defense League. 

DECEMBER, 1917. 
7. Over 5,000 residents become aliens upon declara- 
tion of war with Austria-Hungaiy. 
14. Doctors Donahue, Smith, Gutman, Howley, Mc- 
Laughlin and Anderson are name<l on Medical 
Advisory Board in connection with the selective 
service system. 

JANUARY, 1918. 

2. Government takes over Wright-Martin plant. 

3. Jersey Blue Chapter presents Rutgers' College 
with handsome American flag to replace one 
over Queens College, which is worn out. Mayor 
Farrington starts movement for registration of 
all aliens in city. Cash receipts for Jewish Re- 
lief announced as $4,167.34. 

4 Fuel Administrator Charles A. McCormick is- 
sues order closing all public schools until Janu- 
ary 15th. Public Service shuts off power in over 
100 local establishments until Monday. 

5. Fuel administration opens five coal stations in 
the city. 

10. Board of Education decided to keep public 

schools closed until Januai-y 21st. 
13. Service flag with 118 stars is blessed at special 

exercises held in St. Peter's Church. 
16. Wright-Martin Aircraft Co. is included in three 

days a week order for power to run plant. 
18. All manufacturers in Middlesex county comply 

with order of fuel administrator to close down 

for five days except those exempted. 

21. Holiday is observed in all lines of business not 
exempted by order of fuel administrator. 

25. Chief of Police Michael O'Connell announces 
complete plans for registering aliens beginning 
February 4th. 

27. Service flag in honor of 19 young men in war 
service is presented to the First Baptist Chui-ch. 

28. Shortage of coal is so acute that three coal 
dealers announce their supplies exhausted. 
Eighty-three soldiers en route to Washington 
with army trucks, are served with a hot lunch. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



1. Rutgers College announces that in order to con- 
ser\'e fuel several buildings will be closed and 
others kept open but half time. Official records 
show that there have been 20 snow stoi-ms so 
far and that nearly 29 inches of snow have 
faUen. 

FEBRUARY, 1918. 
1. Fuel Administrator McConnick announces that 
all food stores must close at noon on Mondays. 
Kenneth Swain, Winant Gowen, A. D. Prentiss 
and Paul Haney arrive home on ten day fur- 
lough and tell of experiences on first trip across 
•Rath U-boats. 
4. Mayor Farrington sends letter of protesit to 
Public Service Company against shutting off 
power from local filtration plant. Work of reg- 
istering enemy aliens starts with 18 appearing 
at post office. 

10. About $1,000 is contributed to the fund for the 
repatriation of the Jewish people in Palestine, 
at a mass meeting held in the Opera House, 
Rabbi Wise speaking. 

13. Many local plants shut down on account of lack 
of power from Public Sei-iice. 

18. Fire destroys building at Morgon Shell load- 
ing plant, causing less of $30,000. 

19. All factories in Middlesex county in full opera- 
tion, after enforced shut down due to lack of 
power. 

20. Ten New Brunswick men leave for Camp Dix. 
22. J. W. Johnson made chairman of next Liberty 

Loan Campaign committee. 

25. One hundred and twenty-five men leave for 
army sei-vice at Camp Dix, a big demonstration 
being given them at the railroad station by 
citizens. Food administration leases big ware- 
house of Janeway and Carpender for storage 
of manufactured goods for new terminal at 
Bonhamtown. 

2C. High wind blows over brick walls of two build- 
ings at government tei-minal at Bonhamtown, 
killing Philip Moscowich, of New York, and in- 
juring three others. Title to 1,200 acres of land 
at Bonhamtown, part of which is in government 
reservation, is transferred to Lewis Nixon. 

27. Hans Hansen, injured at the Bonhamtown ter- 
minal yesterday, dies. 

MARCH, 1918. 

1. Transport of 65 army trucks passes through 
city on the way to Baltimore, loaded with gov- 
ernment supplies. 

2. Lieutenant Arthur S. Carpender, of George 
street, has been made Lieutenant Commander 
for special sei-vice in the Navy. County Fuel 
Administrator Charles A. McCormick announces 
that coal dealers will not be allowed to look 
orders for future delivery until a distribution 
plan can be arranged. 

6. Twenty-two local men leave for Camp Green- 
On^ hundred fifty-eight 



leaf, Ga., completing quota of 367 from New 
Biimswick. 

12. Wright-Martin Aircraft Company petition City 
Commission for an overhead foot-bridge across 
the P. R. R. tracks at Sandford street. Prose- 
cutor Joseph E. Strieker announces that anti- 
loafing law is strictly enforced in this county. 

17. Mayor Edward Fan-ington is chosen head of the 
Patriotic Force of New Brunswick. 

19. Charles A. McCoi-mick, treasurer of Johnson and 
Johnson's, is given leave of absence to accept a 
government position on April 1st. 

24. News of the death of George H. Stokes, private 
at Camp Oglethoi-p, Ga., is received here, the 
first local soldier to die in service- 
Local and South Amboy companies are inspected 
by Major Borden at Buccleuch Park. Sennce 
Flag with 64 stars is unveiled in Highland Park. 

26. County Medical Board examines 225 registrants 
referred by the board of physicians and accept 
about half of them. Foi-mer Judge J. Kearney 
Rice of local exemption board receives copies 
of the new law making the eviction of soldiers 
dependents for non-payment of rent a prison 
offense. Plans for the distribution of coal this 
summer are made at a meeting of the munici- 
pal and county administrators held here. 

27. Thirty-fifth Regiment, U. S. Engineers en route 
from Philadelphia to New York, with 136 
motor trucks and numerous motor cars pass 
through city. Sheriff Anderson confers with 
police heads of county regarding enforcing anti- 
loafing laws. Flag raising exei-cises are held at 
Bonhamto^\•n ordnance depot. 

31. Service flag at Second Reformer Chui-ch with 20 
stars, is dedicated with appropriate exercises. 
APRIL, 1918. 
3- Fifty-five more local men leave for Camp Dix 

as members of the selective army. 
4. Charles Henry, local soldier in France, is re- 
ported badly wounded. 

7. Sei-vice fiage is dedicated at First Presbyterian 
Church by Rev. W. W. Knox. Co. E of this city 
participates in review of Third Battalion of 
New Jersey State Militia at Lakewood. 

8. Russell E. Watson succeeds Charles McConnick 
as County Fuel Administrator. 

14. Liberty Loan drive opens with big mass meet- 
ing at Opera House. 

20. City oversubscribes Liberty Loan quota $303,- 
250. Mayor Farrington sets May 1 as New 
Brunswick Day at Camp Dix. 

21. Local subscriptions for Liberty Loan reach $1,- 
834,050, which is $329,000 over quota. Parents 
of Charles Henry, of 85 Church street, are ad- 
vised that he was killed in service in France on 
April 8. 

23. Captain Bigelow, son of Major and Mrs. Bige- 
low of Highland Park, was killed in action in 



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France on July 23rd, according to advices just 
received. City's Liberty Loan honor flag was 
presented to James W. Johnson, chairman of 
the third Liberty Loan campaign, who in turn 
presented it to Mayor Farrington who will have 
it fly from the flagstaff at Monument Triangle. 

24. Fuel Administrator Russell E. Watson an- 
nounces that lightless nights will be discon- 
tinued until September 1. 

29. Fuel Administrator Russell E. Watson, finding 
four tons of coal in the cellar of the house oc- 
cupied by S. Greenblat at 81 Carman street, has 
it removed at the latter's expense. 
MAY, 1918. 

1. Five hundred people from New Brunswick and 
Highland Park go to Camp Dix to celebrate 
New Bi-unswick Day there- 

5. Sei-vice flag with 33 stars is dedicated by New 
Brunswick Aerie of Eagles at special exercises 
held in their rooms. 

8. Local Home Guards organize band of 25 pieces 

with Eugene Ross as leader. 
15. Board of Trade protests against sales of Ger- 
man papers. 

19. Amelia Bingham raises $6,473 at Opera House 
for Red Cross. 

221. Twenty-one hotels and other licensed places 
closed within the five mile limit of Camp 
Raritan. 

JUNE, 1918. 
5. Two (hundred and forty-five men who have be- 
come of age since June 5, 1917, register. 
7. Coal shortage for the city, 15,000 tons. 
14. Sergent Garret Finnigan reported seriously 

wounded in France. 
17. Rev. Frederick Halloron, of the Sacred Heart 
Church, enlists and goes to France as chaplain. 

20. Thomas Mettler succeeds Charles A. McCor- 
mick as County Food Administrator; $62,271.58 
subscribed to Second Red Cross Fund. 

24. Lieut. Joseph Corso died. 

25. Captain James B. Scarr killed in Famce. 
27. Holmes Marshall reported killed. 

JULY, 1918. 

2. Anable properly secluded as headquarters for 
soldiers by War Camp Community Service. 

S. Co. H arrive overseas. 
4. "Loyalty Day" parade. 
9-11. Draftees leave for Camp Humphries. 

10. Detectives arrest 49 slackers at work at Camp 
Raritan. 

11. Sherman Conklin, of Rutgers College, killed in 
France. 

12. Private Otto Beyer awarded Croix de Guerre. 
14- Forty-one slackers arrested among the workers 

at Camp Raritan. 
18- Six Mineola aviators stalled at Buccleuch Park. 
19. Camp Raritan supplies trucks to take soldiers 

back and forth from town to Camp. 



22. Govemmenit buys land to build houses for war 

workers. Police round-up 51 slackers. 
24. Nine men leave for Camp Dix. 

26. Lieut. Commander Arthur Carpender, receives 
a destinguished sei'vice medal from King George 
of England. 

29. Eugene P. Darraow named to have charge of 
the local branche of U. S. Employment Service. 

30- Ten men leave for Syracuse. 
AUGUST, 1918. 
2. Dr. James P. Schureman called to the colors and 
reported for duty in Virginia. Eight colored 
men leave for Camp Dix. 

5. Thirty-four men leave for Camip. Explosion at 
Oliver Loading Co. 

6. Street lights are reduced 40 per cent, to comply 
with lightless nights order. 

11. Military funeral of George McGee, killed in 
aeroplane accident. 

16. Michlen Tire Co. makes gas masks. 

22. Brigadier General William Weigel is made 
Major General. 

23. Five colored men leave for Camp Dix. 

SEPTEMBER, 1918. 

1. First "Gasless Sunday." The running of auto- 
mobiles suspended for the conservation of gaso- 
line. 

2. Over 2,000 persons participate in Labor Day 
parade. Machinists' Union presents ambulance 
to government. 

3. Twenty-one men leave for Camp Dix. 

5. Fifty-four men leave for Camp Humphries. 
10. Registrars to enroll draft men on September 
12th take oath of office. 

12. Five thousand, four hundred and thirty-three 
men registered for draft- 

16. Government to build 193 houses for war 
workers. 

27. Sergeant George Meirose cited for bravery. 

30. Camp Raritan placed under quarantine on ac- 
count of influenza. 

OCTOBER, 1918. 
1. Lieutenant Jay Polling, member of the Royal 
Flying Coi"ps, who formerly lived on Georges 
Road, is reported killed in action in France. 

4. All public assemblies closed in effort to check 
influenza. Shell loading plant of T. A. Gillespie 
Co. at Morgan, is vsdped out by explosions and 
fire. 

5. Refugees from Morgan pour into city- War de- 
partment at Washington "roasts" housing con- 
ditions in city. 

6. Fuel supply in local schools reported to be in- 
adequate for winter. Refugees from Morgan 
continue to come to city. Influenza death rate 
increases. 

7. Wright-Martin Co. offers to assist city finan- 
cially in paving Jersey avenue. Hospitals are 
crowded with influenza victims. 

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NEW BRUNSWICK 



8. Canvassers start campaign for Fourth Liberty 
Loan Drive. Saloon keeper disobeys order of 
closing public places and is reported to authori- 
ties. 

9. Captains Towle and Walker lose life in fire at 
Colonia Hospital. Forty bodies recovered from 
ruins at Gillespie plant at Morgan. 

10. Million dollar mark passed in Liberty Loan 
drive. Rent profiteering being investigated in 
city. Authorities may open isolation hospital 
for influenza cases. 

li. One hundred persons respond to call of War 
Labor Board for help at Wright-Martin plant. 
City churches to remain closed until further 
notice beacuse of influenza epidemic. Ex-Mayor 
George Viehman dies. 

1?.. Home Guards offer to work at Wright-Martin 
if needed. 

13. Churches closed on account of Spanish Influenza 
in city. Funerals held for first time in city on 
Sunday. 

14. Prosecutor Striker announces that he will in- 
vestigate the recent explosion at Morgan. Iso- 
lation Hospital opened for victims of Spanish 
Influenza in city. 

16- Fifteen inmates of coimty workhouse volunteer 
to dig graves for burial of epidemic victims. 

IV. P. J. Young wins first prize and John P. Wall 
second in Liberty Loan display contest. 

23. Call is issued for help in local war industries. 
Local undertakers report shortage of caskets 
due to influenza epidemic. Private Tallman, of 
Highland Park, reported prisoner in a Gei-man 
camp. 

2!^.. Government will build 200 more houses for war 
workers in city. 

NOVEMBER, 1918. 
7. City celebrates premature report of signing of 
peace armistice. 

10. Wililam Reed receives word that his son, Lieu- 
tenant Charles Reed, has been wounded in ac- 
tion. 

11. City celebrates confirmed news of peace in en- 
thusiastic manner. Rutgers S. A. T. C. men 



raid Socialist headquarters on French street and 
carry off red flags. 

Seven cent fare goes into effect on all trolely 
lines in county. Fewer cases of influenza re- 
ported. 

Mayor Farrington calls meeting to take up malt- 
ter of selecting suitable memorial for soldiers 
anad sailors of city. 

Arthur Gowen reported killed in France. Social- 
ist flags displayed at Stelton ordered taken 
down by authorities. 

Word is received that Lieutenant Richard Smith 
of Company H, National Guard, has been ap- 
pointed captain of that company. 
Telegram from Washington reports no severe 
casualties in Co. H during recent battles in 
France. 

DECEMBER, 1918. 
First snowfall of season. Service flag with 62 
stars dedicated at Livingston Avenue Baptist 
Church. 

Lieutenant A. S. Cai-pender, commander of the 
convoy Radford, will accompany President Wil- 
son across the Atlantic. 

Letters received by relatives tell of Brigadier 
General Joseph C Castner being gassed by 
enemy shells. 

Night shift at Wright-Martin plant eliminated, 
affecting 500 men. 

William Kibbe, Jr., arriving from France, is 
taken to Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital. 
Mayor Farrington dies in Newark hospital. 
Christmas was a day of cheer throughout the 
city at the hospitals, orphan homes, canteen. 
The soldiers at the Colonia base ho-spital and 
at Camp Raritan were made happy by many 
kind friends. A big crowd sang about the Com- 
munity Christmas tree in Court House Square. 
Mayor-elect John J. Mon-ison announces he will 
name a committee of five fi-om Soldiers' Fare- 
well and Welfare Committee to select committee 
of 100 to arrange for celebration in honor of 
New Brunswick's war heroes. 




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RED CROSS MARCHINC THROUGH ARCH AT LIVINGSTON AVE- 
NUE AND GEORGE STREET, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 
WELCOME HOME PARADE. 



N THE WORLD WAR 



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During the war it was necessary to do extensive advertising of the various drives, 
the expense of which was paid for by the following business men of New Brunswick: 



Tepper Bros. 




Schussler's 


H. B. Zimmei-man 


New Jersey Food Co. 




Strand Shoe Shop 


S. Slonim 


P. J. Young Dry Goods Co. 


Skourlas & Angelides 


J. E. Clayton 


W. R. Reed 




G. H. Bissett 


James Van Dyk Co. 


Houghton & Strauss 




0. 0. Stillman 


American Food Co. 


M. Levinston 




W. E. Mount 


S. S. Cohen 


Wolfson & Sons 




Morris Fischler 


Imperial Tea Co., Inc. 


The Fashion Shop 




Joseph Snyder 


M. J. Lowenstein 


E. Intemann 




Drake Bros. 


Theo. Cohn 


Albert Weinraub 




Jefferies Tire Depot 


John Clark, Florist 


H. C. F. Randolph 




M. Wallach 


Gallagher's Millinery 


R. Montalvo, Jr. 




Klein Bros. 


Globe Furniture Co. 


Miller Hat Shop 




James Hat Co. 


Posner's 


Mueller & New 




National Dairy Co. 


Hartman 


Bruns 




Jacobs Bros. 


The Remnant Shop 


H. Talley & Co. 




United Motor Service Co. 


Hirsh's Millinery 


L. H. Hoagland 




Christie Press 


The Boston Shoe Ston 


John P. V/all 




Bon Ton 


Michaelis Millinery 


John J. Monigan 




Edwin R. Van Pelt 


Sam Bears 


Marks Bros. 




Archer's Shoe Store 


W. H. Mansfield 


Howley Bros. 




A. V. Harding Sons 


Strong Hardware Co. 


Wagner Meat Market 


; Co. 


Lyons & Parker 


Howell Lumber Co. 


National Beef Co. 




New York Beef Co. 


United Cigar Stores Co. 


Jet White Laundry 


Charles Paulus 


Hanover Shoe (Sheppard & 


Vogel's Shoe Store 


Alprin & Miller 


Meyers) 




Hub Store 


Raritan Coal Co. 




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One hundred sixty-one 



NEW BRUNSWICK 




•Milt" Preger giving 
Geneml Pershing the 
once over. 





Harold Potter Takes a Little Watts, Haney and Prentiss celebrate 

Exercise the ISth Amendment 











Lieut. Ernest DeWald drops in and Eddie Hayes al- 

has lunch with his old friend, in the ways rolled his Han-y and George SpiUe, A. W. 0. L. 

Swiss Legation. own. in Dijon, General Oi-dere 





Lieut. "Put" Atkinson out for 
a stroll. 



ill McCloskey and Harry Richaixison 
"limbering up." 




Just Sew-Sew With 
Chxis. Cai-pender 



One hundred sixty-two 




NEW BRUNSWICK HONOR ROLL 



Muh Sit tl]e i'eruice 



Biudish, Michael 
Bush, Gustav 
Brokaw, Chester J. 
Beech, William F. 
Blumig, Charles 
Berrue, Harold L. 
Beyers, William J. 
Campbell, Harry L. 
Canzonier, Vincent J. 
Croker, Arthur 
Cadmus, Theodore 
Corso, Lieut- Joseph 
Donofrio, Antonio 
De Chard, Warren 
Donohue, Charles 
Deakyne, Irving H. 
Damiano, Anthony 
Dermitakis, Emanuel 
Edling. Theodore 
Frey, Harry C. 
Fitzpatrick, James C. 
Flemming, Frank R. 
Grant, William 
Griggs, William W. 



Grady, Vivian G. 
Gowen, Arthur L. 
Grears, John C- 
Green, John A. 
Greaves, John C. 
Gianarakis Nicholas 
Garifalakis, James 
Gi-unbacher, Edward 
Guscat, Angus 
Henry, Charles 
Hampton, William C. 
Himmler, John G. 
Hoffman, Daniel R- 
lago, Edward J. 
Jacobinsky, Stephen 
Kilmer, Joyce 
Kazel, Nicholas 
Kohler, Louis 
Lancaster, Grover J. 
Leach, Willard J. 
Lyons, Thomas 
McCouit, Edward 
MacGeo, George 
McCool. Patrick J. 



Mackim, Antonio 
Marshall, Maxwell H. 
Mattern, Lieut. Henry 
Meyers, James I. 
Peck, Ernest 
Perry, Spencer 
PoUins, Lieut. Jay 
Paulidges, Athanasseos 
Rasickis, Anthony 
Ross, J. Ernest 
Robbins, Archie 
Reid, James R- 
Rudnitzky, Joseph H. 
Schau, Otto 
Schork, George 
Schrober, Frank A. 
Stokes, George H. 
Sterling, Charles G. 
Troiano, Peter 
Tarka, Mike 
Trohalidis. Kastos 
Voorhees, Harry 
Wood, George H. 
Worthge, George 



MAJOR-GENERAL 

William Weigel 

BRIGADIER GENERAL 

Joseph C. Castner 

CHAPLAIN 

Rev. Frederick J. Halloran 



Edmund W. Billetdoux 

William J. Condon, M. D. 

Floyd E. Chedister 

Leo M. Daly 

Harold S. Flanagan, D.D.S 

Alexander Gruessner, M.D. 

J. Bayard Kirkpatrick 



CAPTAINS 

Robert A. Lufburrow 
Herbert W. Nafey, M. D. 
Raymond S. Paterson 
Ralph N. Perlee 
Robert W. Pettit, M. D. 
Charles H. Reed 



Vivian C. Ross 
Richard A. Smith 
Charles F. Seibert 
William B. Twiss 
William P. White 
Ralph P. White 



FIRSr LIEUTENANTS 



Frank S- Atkinson 
Charles S. Appleby 
George F. Bullock 
Harold S. Best 
Thomas F. Byrne 
Ernest T. Dewald 
Wallace T. Eakins 
Edwin Florance 
Charles R. Gildersleeve 
Edward S. Hoe, Jr. 



Walter Jones 

P. Klemmer Kalteissen 

Roy E. Kitchenmeister 

John F. McGo\ein, Jr., M.D. 

Wm. H. McCallum 

Neil McDougal 

George W. C. McCarter 

George H. Martin 

William H. Martin 



C F. Merrill, M. D. 
Thorlow C. Nelson 
Grenville Ward Parkin 
Bertram B. Smith, D.D.S. 
James P. Schu reman, M. D. 
Theodore Strong 
Leonard S. Webb 
Pennington H. Way 
George H. Whisler 



SECOND LIEUTENANTS 



Lauren S. Archibald 
Phillip H. Benz 
Henry C. Berg 
Russell J. Bergen 
Joseph R. Costa 
Joseph Corso 
Percy Cunnis 
Holms V. M. Dennis, 3rd 
Harry Edgar 
Joseph H. Edgar 
Adrian Fisher 
Ralph Heidingsfeld 
Frederick T. Hamer 
John H. Hoagland 



J. Bertram Howell 
Roy R. Hawthorn 
Peter Hoe 
Edward S. Ingham 
Everett W. Jackson 
George E. Jones 
Cornelius V. S. Knox 
Warren D. McCloskey 
Joseph V. McGovern 
Henry Mattem 
Fiank M. Meyerand 
Jay PoUins 
Miles Ross 
Franklin M. Ritchie 



George H. Roeder 
John R. Riker 
Ralph Solomon 
John Schurr 
Philip H. Stacy 
Wm. H. Stang 
Lansing P. Shields 
Monroe W. Taylor 
Rushworth Van Sickle 
Paul Walrath 
Walter K. Wood 
William L. Woelz 
Paul H. Wayke 
Charles L. Walker 



LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER 

Arthur Carpender Frank J. Daly William Nicholas 



Craig Oenman 



LIEUTENANTS 

Cornelius N- Conover 



John A. Dunagan 



ENSIGNS 



Charles H. Englehart 
Allen F. Conger 



John C. Conger 
Lawrence Gillam 



J. Seward Johnson 
Nicholas G. Rutgers, Jr. 



William L. Strong, Ji 



Wm. Carpender 



RED CROSS COMMISSIONER 

John H. Logan 

LIBRARIAN 

Gl rge A. Osbom 

RED CROSS NURSES 



Katherine Hannan 
Sally Parker 
Veronica Wahler 
Clara Sprague 



Norman Derr 
Ella Kearney 
Celia Jacobs 
Marion McKinney 



Jessie Walker 
Katherine Malay 

Evelyn B. Taylor 
Miss McLally 



Seimc© M©irii 



A 

Willis Ackerman 
Henry J. Acker 
Oscar H. Ahem 
Joseph Anderson 
Hairy L. Applegate 
Edward Amon 
Chas. J. Anderson 
Frank Acker 
Perry H. Atwood 
Edward Amon 
Harko Antoniczuk 
H. Vernon Aspinall 
Joseph Antonale 
Garret Ayers 
Thaddeus A. Anzolut 
Stephen C. Austin 
Oliver Askins 
Albert Auten, Jr. 
James R. Alexander 
Pasquale Amato 
Max Albert 
George S. Anton 
Paul Adams 
Cai-melo Arcuri 
Willian Allen 
Fred Van Arsdale 
Steve Artemis 
Walter H. Atherley 
William Albert 
Emanuel Apostalakis 
Nathan E. Allen 
Augustus H. Akerstrom 
Clarence L. Adams 
Paul Adams 
Jim Adams 
Chas. E. Anderson 

B 

Paul S. Best 
Chester R. Barbour 
Hulbert J. Bagley 
Alfred Bloodgood 
James Burke 
In'ing J. Buttler 
Richard J. Burke 
Edward T. Boorman 
Frederick Bergen 
Edward A. Brodell 
Walter P. Bouscher 
Lawrence Butler 
Herbert Bernard 
John Bastedo 
Joseph Breckley 
Frank A. Bradley 
Charles F. Brockman 
William J. Barbour 
Augustus P. Barclay 
Nathan Benadert 



Clifford Baker 
Thomas F. Burns 
Alexander Backey 
Carl E. Bahr 
Robert Borisonyi 
Frank A. Baker 
Clifford L. Barbour 
George H. Burke 
Raymond Buzzee 
Arthur W. Brooksbank 
Lester J. Breece 
Richai'd Barry 
Louis Bondzsel 
John Besto 
Geoi-ge Burlioton 
Otto W. Boyer 
Jos. Opde Beeck 
Joseph Bernard 
Martin J. Burke 
Russos Bofilios 
Jos. F. Barry 
Jos. Birch, Jr. 
John Bobonick 
Frank O. Bailey 
James G. Buzzell 
Wm. B. Brown 
Emanuel Breitkopf 
Alfred J. Blauvelt 
Hugh B. Bradley 
Harry E. Bowers 
Harry Batch 
Alva A. Blakeney 
Walter L. Barr 
Clarence Bailey 
William J. Bates 
Amil F. Brinker 
William Boschong 
George L. Burt 
Edward L. Breen 
Edward F. Bull 
Roy Brower 
Wm. J. Beyer 
Karl Binko 
Bolan Boira 
James Breece 
Charles D. Brower 
Joseph Barry 
Philip Burg 
Thomas F. Baker 
Otto J. Beyers 
Hugh St. L. Booth 
James V. Brady 
Robert V. Butler 
Philip Bass 
George L. Broffe 
Robert Brown 
John V. Breazele 
Frederick S. Bamy 
Ravmond E. Bennett 



Frederick H. Boetcher 
Arthur Buckalew 
Carl J. Buckelew 
Chester E. Breece 
Frank L. Biekwith 
Philip H. Breece 
Edward A. Buckelew 
James A. Bates 
Edward T. Booream 
isathan Becker 
Fred jjergen 
James H. Bruse 
Russell E. Bollman 
Raymond Beaucage 
Watson Boudinot 
James Baschong 
Edward Bull 
George Burke 
Irving D. Buttler 
Edwin D. Boyce 
George L. Burt 
Clarence Bailey 
Walter Barnes 
Clarence E. Buckalew 
Frank R. Boudinot 
Wa.'^eley Baigchuk 
Robert Bradley 
George A. Bowen 
William F. Breece 
Stephen H. Blaner 
Steve Bodner 
Russell Britton 
Edward T. Boorman 
Clark A. Butterworth 



Alexander J. Campbell 
Edward J. Crane 
Charles Coopley 
John Crowley 
Joseph M. Collins 
Tony Chakomsky 
John L. Copeland 
Christopher Chittick 
Tony Consalvo 
Frank Carter 
Karl Christensen 
Harry Corollyk 
Edward Caton 
Frank A. Cosgrove 
Joseph H. Collins 
Walter S. Clark 
Raymond Cereghino 
Innocenzo Cassera 
Frank Carapola 
Rocco Conzanto 
Hain Cazes 
Rfansee Curlmaak 
Robert C. Carlson 



Samuel Cohen 
Lester Galloway 
George Collier 
Thomas Coleman 
Arthur T. Chambers 
Frank Clark 
Ihomas Connors 
John H. Cathcart 
Benj. Cinquegrani 
G. Dewitt Clinton 
Harold Cole 
Chas. S. Conover 
Edward F. Corrigan 
Nathan Cammel 
Monaheny Cohen 
David A. Coleman 
Louis Chatta 
Mike Caprio 
Chester C. Seeman 
Willard C. Thompson 
Raymond P. Creamer 
James Coleman 
Frank Carter 
Lester Colligan 
Charles Conklin 
John Carson 
Luigi M. Grossman 
John Crawford 
Joseph F. Cosgrove 
Douglas Campbell 
Walter Clark 
John Crohi 
Tony Consalvo 
George W. Coopey 
Harry A. Coyne 
Alexander Clark 
William J. Carr 
Fred Curtis 
John Cherik 
Forest H. T. Clickner 
Elwood B. Cronk 
Kenneth E. Carroll 
James J. Curran 
James Campbell 
Leslie Cramer 
Louis S. Crouch 
Frank A. Cosgrove 
Joseph D. Campbell 
Frank J. Crane 
Thomas F. Coyne 
Charles L. Cole 
George Copeland 
Charles J. Carpender,Jr. 
Walter L. Carey 
Frank P. Castellani 
Nelson D. Conners 
George Calamia 
Percy Comfort 
Leo Coyle 

Harold E. Crawford 
Walter Curren 



Schuyler Clark 
Warren B. Clark 
Peter F. Copeland 
Bertram E. Cordo 
William W. Cathcart 
Woodbuin T. Covert 
Hubert E. Casey 
Albert E. Cails n 
Wm. P. Clelland 
John F. Conlon 
Jos. A.Chisholm 
Francis P. Carlon 
Calvin C. Cunnius 
Roland E. Curtis 
Frank M. Casey 
Dewitt P. Croxson 
Harold F. Courtney 
John N. Carson 

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Thomas Dicandia 
Harold C Dunn 
Jonas P. Dooley 
Frank A. Devine 
Jacques F. DeKeyser 
Frank Denti 
Paul Dimeo 
Sam Dicare 
Willis P. Duruz 
Oliver Duval 
Charles L. Donerly 
James A. Donahue 
Constantin Draconlis 
Elijah Doran 
William De Angelis 
Fi-ank A. Dougherty 
Joseph Daquino 
Frank Daraga 
Ward F. Dayton 
John A. Delesendro 
Clifford Donohue 
Mark Donofrio 
Arthur Danberry 
Mike Dagones 
Emanuel Doyantaikies 
John Daly 
John R. Donnelly 
James J. Donnelly 
David DuBoice 
James Donelson 
Neilson Dunham 
Charles W. Dowd 
James P. Dooley 
Emanuel Dei-milakis 
Clarence G. Dunham 
Chas. S. Dixon 
LeRoy S. Drake 
Anthony Damiano 
Maurice Demougeot 
T,pwis DuBois 



Oliver Duvall 

Elijah Doran 

John H. Dunham 

Jacob M. Deinzer 

William Diamanti 

John M. Damgaard 

J. Walton Donahue 

Robent Dempsey 

Leon H. Draper 

Andrew Dudas 

John Dalrymple 

William G. Deinzer 

John Delaney 

Herbert Daly 

Carmine Darago 

Frank Dowdell 

Coulter Duff 

Dominic V. A. Delia Volpe 

Emanuel Daskalakis 

Harry J. Donahue 

Vincent J. Donahue 

Wm. Danberry 

Edwin H. Dutson 

Frank H. Dunham 

Frank M. Deiner 

Sydney B. Dell 

F. Wilson DuBois 

Charles J. Donahue 

Richard Dickhart 

Frank H. Dey 

Vito Domiano 

James F. Donahue 

Edward F. Duffy 

Thom-.s Dicon 

John V. Daly 

Simon Doyle 

Anthony Dolan 

Milton T. Doan 

Harry Dennison 

Wm. R. Devine 

Rudolph Dupros 

William Daniel 

James Deegan 

Frederick J. Dunham 

Everett Dunn 

Albert E. Davis, Jr. 

Charles S. Dixon 

Voorhces Dean 

William E. Dunham 

Vincent Daly - 

Edgar V. Dunn 

Alexander L. DeLoach 

Raphael A. Donahue 

Lester Doughty 

Clarence G. Dunham 

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Carl Edgerton 
Thomas W. Emond 
Edwin P. Ellison 
John Earl 



Alex. Enterbeg 
George C. Edgar 
Ben Erb 
Warren R. Edch 
Henry N. Estgen 
James P. Earl 
Maurice Essman 
Isadore Edmison 
Avraam Ezratty 
Frank Ehas 
Frank Eckert 
Robert Eden 
Irving Eden 
Irving Eidleman 
Glenn M. Eastman 
Alador Erngey 
Harold P. Ellison 
George Erb 
Samuel Elfant 
LeRoy J. Esler 
Frank Eldridge 
Thomas A. Eldridge 
Knute Errickson 
Arthur A. Eden 
George F. Edmonson 
Erneft G. Eden 
Edward Ennis 
Card J. Egerton 
Thomas Evanowsky 
Frank J. Eckert 
LeRoy Ervin 
Milton Eden 
James H. Eynon 



William Fuhrman 
Jacob Flink 
Chas. I. Frith 
John D. Farrell 
Harold L. Freeman 
Edward Ford 
Alexander Farkas 
Waldemar A. Frederick 
Albin J. Foley 
Leo Fochtmann 
Thomas Farris 
George Feaster 
George Figlo 
Frederick P. Feltman 
John E. Ferren 
Eric Fleming 
Roy F. Fellers 
Thomas E. Finnigan 
Martin Fisher 
Rosswell Fulton 
Daniel M. Foster 
Joseph Fauthauler 
Robert A. Fisher 
Walker Flanagan 
Ross Flanagan 
L. Fochman 
David A. Feri-y 



J. Ford Flagg 
Russell Flagg 
Warren G. Feller 
Angelo Fiorentino 
Chas. E. Fulton 
Wm H. Fitzgerald 
August Fischlowitz 
Eugene Fraley 
Edw. A. Flomerfelt 
Chas. H. Frith 
Joseph Fuchs 
George Fitos 
John Foss 
Joseph Fries 
Peter Fehey 
James Faulkner 
John Fusco 
Lowell Finnigan 
James H. Featherson 
Stephen V. Foczman 
Frederick F. Fasch 
Jacob M. Freedman 
George Warren Feller 
Parker Freeman 
John C. Frisch 
Benj. H. Finlaw 
Thomas A. Fullerton 
Stephen Fitzpatrick 
John H. Fate 
Wm. J. Felton 
John J. Ferrin 
Edward Ford 



John Gould 
Laurance Gilliam 
Cammillo Gallatti 
Stephen Groch 
Lawrence Guadagninp 
Victor Gheleno 
Morris J. Goldenberg 
George Greger 
Luigi M. Grossman 
Henry Green 
Paul P. Groben 
James F. Gray 
Edward Gates 
James Gay 
Walter Gilliand 
Albert Gardner 
Martin Gulick 
Frank J. Gray 
Peter C. Greguson 
Howard J. Groben 
George H. Gordon 
Joseph Genzanto 
James Gargan 
Benny Giaquinto 
Frank Geresi 
Joseph Gallagher 
Chas. A. Giles 



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Sophy S. Gabriel 
Demetrius Geoiggarakis 
John Guthowski 
Theo. Gutkowsky 
Alfred Gamble 
Clifford E. Glines 
Robert Greene 
Leory Gladden 
Herman E. Grandell 
Chas. H. Gaffeney 
Edwin Goodchild 
Nicholas Gia larakies 
Vivian G. Grady 
George I. Garland 
Adam Geldert 
Willard C. Gowen 
Hei-man Granrlell 
William Groth 
Fritz Gebhardt 
W. W. Gowen 
Irving Gordon 
Nicholas J. Geanris 
Jos. B. Galipo 
George Gamble 
Austin Greenwood 
Harry Greenberg 
Endro Gubsky 
Richard J. Galligan 
Johnnie Guise 
Abraham Gordon 
Harry Galloway 
Michael Gellery 
Thomas Gilliotta 
Vincent Genco 
Edward Gowen 
Louis R. Goldberg 
Michael Gordon 
Michael Godfrey 
James A. Gillin 
Raymond Gebhart 
George Gilbert 
William Gordon 
Charles F. Geiger 
Albert Grandell 
Jamps P. Gibson 
George Gamble 
Edward T. Garrigan 
Myles V. Garrigan 
Arthur L. Gowtn 
Wm. H. Gaub 
Herman Goldfarb 
Andrew Gordon 
Francis P. Gonch 
Alvise M. Golly 
John J. Gavin 
Elias Goydas 
John Gould 
Jos. Gi'ossweiler 
Richard O. Goines 
Paul Gaydos 
William Galipo 



John L. Gilligan 
Peter A. Gussie 
Victor Genco 
John Gall 

William Greenwood 
Abraham Gordon 
Leo E. Gaffeney 

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William Hopkins 
James A. Harkins 
Russell B. Howell 
Harry H. Holman 
John H. Hewlitt 
Raymond F. Hoagland 
George H. Hye 
Godfrey Hawes 
Gerald P. Hayes 
Michael Hanlon 
Christian F. Hansen 
Edward J. Hayes 
Everett C. Hunt 
John N. Harkins 
Daniel L. Harkins 
Stephen A. Hunter 
Henry Hefner 
Louis Hendler 
F. Arthur Hall 
Christian T. Hansen 
Daniel P. Hardy 
Feodor Hapanovich 
Albert Hammon 
James W. Hickey 
Chester R. Holman 
Russell B. Henry 
George A. Henry 
Victor Hayar 
Frank A. Hayter' 
John C. Hartnett 
Williard F. Heffernan 
Alexander Henderson 
John L. Harkins 
Daniel J. Heitzenroder 
Carl A. Hokanson 
Abraham Hortz 
Austin Hagaman 
Frederick E. Hamed 
Louis Hanges 
Geoigc Harett 
Leo F. Hohmann 
William Henry 
Edward J. Hanlon 
Amos Horrocks 
John Harkins, Jr. 
Edwin Hageman 
Frank A. Harper 
Isaac Hayward 
William J. Harper 
Joseph A. Howard 
Thomas F. Hannan 
Herbert Heckman 



Eugene Hefiin 
Thomas Hynes 
Herbert F. Hoagland 
William W. Hill 
Edward F. Hulse 
Robert Hussey 
Walter D. Heapy 
Albert Helferich 
John F. Horten 
George E. Hardy 
Raymond Higgins 
John B. Herbert 
Robert E. Henderson 
Max Hirsh 
John J. Hennessy 
Thomas Hinsas 
Hyman Hopen 
John N. Harding 
Isaac Hayward 
Charles F. Harding 
James Hayes 
Monroe Hams 
C. M. Hanesler 
Ansel Holmes 
Wm. R. Hamer 
William Hefner 
Charles Herman 
Robert L. Henry 
William Holman 
Frank S. Hudson 
John Hatzakis 
Millard Hobbs 
Howard N. Hennessey 
Harold G. Holman 
Louis Hartley 
Walter T. Hesse 
Clarence Humphrey 
Samuel R. Hoffman 
John J. Hoagland 
J. M. Holmberg 
Paul S. Haney 
Tecumseh C. Harding 
Alfred C. Hobelman 
Louis Hatt 
Russell Higgins 
Samuel S. Higgins 
Adelbert J. Hcim 
James J. Hannan 
Herbert Hustis 
Michael . Hammell 
William F. Harding 
Edmund L. Haines 
Mack Holmes 
Joseph Hirchman 
Walter J. Harris 
John M. Hunter 

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Alfred W. Irdell 
Russell W. Irdell 
C. W. Ivy 
Lester Irons 



Arthur H. Inteman 
Salvatore Inzerme 
William F. Intemann 
George W. Ingling 



George E. Jonas 
Henry C. Jonas 
li-vin B. Jones 
Frederick L. Jjinee 
Jack Jakiel 
Albert Johnson 
Frank R. Jeffries 
Harry Jackson 
Alfred B. Johnson 
James W. Jeffries 
Arthur Johnson 
George C. Jonas 
Fred Jernee 
Ernest Johnson 
William E. Jackson 
James Jackson 
Chester Jennings 
Abe Josephowich 
Stephen Jacobinsky 
James W. Jemee 
Floyd E. Johnson 
Frank Johnson 
Chester Jennings 
Leopoldo Jeanette 
Herbert L. Jackson 
Frank Josie 
Eugene J. Jandas 
George J. Jeremias 
James E. Johnson 
Morris Jalea 
William A. Jackson 
Eustiatics Jtirjlakakis 
Wallace Jernee 
Lewis Jonas 
Guste Jsakalos 
J. Jack 

William H. Jennings 
Harry L. Jennings 
Harry L. Janeway 
James Jordon 
Morris Josepowich 
Henry C. Jones 
Stephen Jacobinsky 
John S. Johnson 
William Johnson 



Raymond F. Kirby 
Joseph Kirby 
Francis J. Kinney 
George Kane 
Joseph Kursey 
August Kronomeyer 
William Keetch 
Leo J. Kenny 



Edw. J. Kelly 
John Kelly 
Daniel K. Kenny 
Philip Kampinsky 
Philip Kuperak 
Alfred Koster 
Louis F .Kuhn 
Clarence Koch 
David Kallish 
Julius Kosa 
Iran Kreidick 
George E. Kehoe 
David Kelly 
William V. Kibbe 
Joyce Kilmer 
Edward F. Kohlepp 
George Kourkounakis 
Edward M. Kempton 
James J. Kane 
Julius Kalfen 
Chas. H. Knapp 
Evangilos Korofalis 
John J. Kolb 
Adolph Katz 
Herman Kogan 
Max Katshan 
Frank Koch 
James Kehoe 
Nicholas Kozel 
Adam R. Keller 
John D. Kenny 
Irving Kahn 
Thomas R. Kenny 
Robert F. Kelly 
Demetrios Kalimikos 
Joseph Kady 
Harry Kramer 
Francis B. Kelly 
JohR D. Kornitas 
Timothy Kane, Jr. 
Henry Katz 
Mike Kiskumo 
Duncan Kennedy 
Peter Keller 
George Kearns 
Max J. Kerrowsha 
Francis J. Kane 
Ernest Kent 
Joseph Kenny 
Charles E. Kulp 
Frank Kreyling 
Steve Kosuluseka 
Charles Kubler 
Louis Kalmer 
John Kuprian 



Thomas J. Lyons 

Casoer Leecrio 

Peter Loto 

Sam Lavido 

Jacob H. Lacenmayer 



Le Roy Lane 
Richaid M. Latham 
Russell E. Long 
Russell H. Lewis 
Leo J. Ludwig 
John \V. Lynch 
Edward Lewis 
Joseph Lupo 
Samuel Lifschitz 
Herman J. Levine 
John B. Leary 
Chailes C. Lee 
Joseph LaPlace 
Edward L. Linke 
William H. Lorch 
Edward Lovering 
John B. Lynch 
John Lesko 
George Leppert 
Albert B. Leary 
Daniel Lynch 
Mario Leggre 
Vesilios A. Ladikos 
Benedict Ludwig 
Thos. Lseezola 
Stellman LaBone 
John Lively 
Mike Landekas 
Vincent Lynch 
Wm. H. Leach 
Ir\'ing Laurie 
George Lebenberg 
Duke S. Leonard 
John Lindner 
John Lawrynowicz 
Russell Leach 
Theodore Lachenmavpr 
Howard Louyinger 
August T. Landmesser 
C. Raymond Lyons 
Joseph Louth 
Williard R. Lowe 
Michael Levreo 
Harry E. Leach 

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John J. Maliszewski 
Ellsworth F. Marble 
Joseph Marcario 
John G. Meyers 
Louis Miller 
Peter Milicia 
Fred J. Martin 
Artole Mariano 
Walter Marsh 
Dady D. Mack 
Haroln A. Miller 
Benj. H. Myer? 
Charles A. Mason 
Peter Memetsis 
Nicholas Magyar 
Michael Moundalexis 



James Mangino 
John B. Mulligan 
John C. Ma.son 
Frank Mulvy 
Augustm Martin 
HjTnan Margolis 
Morris Marcus 
John Meseroll 
Corey Meyers, Jr. 
Alex. Metes 
Robert Marsh 
Frank A. Martin 
Paul Machuck 
William H. Meserole 
Frederick H. Meyer 
Frank R. Molimock 
Charles Ma^on 
John C. Mason 
Remy J. Menard 
William Mitchell 
Louis J. Moser 
D. Mack 
Charles Morris 
Elston C. Mount 
Burton Moore 
NoiTTian E. Moore 
Eugene Murray 
Jame.' E. Mulvey 
John A. Manning 
Oscar W. Marks 
Antonio Marano 
Mayne S. Mason 
John F. McKeon 
Leroy H. Morris 
William B. Manley 
Raymond F. Moran 
Joseph Melchskey 
P rank W. Masterson 
William H. Moore 
Daneal Masterio 
Herbert J. Miller 
Walter H. Monk 
Edward T. Mullen 
Frank Merrell 
Rudolph Mueller 
R. Moloneaux 
John Martin 
John Massiah 
William A. Merchant 
Fr.-drick G. Mesny 
Claience A. Milstead 
Aithur V. Miller 
Charles N. Meyers 
Harry Meirose 
William T. Meincke 
John Morgan Macom 
Loui.s Matthies 
John H. Merritt 
Charles Mayer 
Harry Marsh 
Wilford H. Marty 
Loo J. Matthews 



Charles VV. Miller 

Antonios Marlulakis 

F. Nayson Manley 

Leory Mason 

Eugene Murray 

Alexander VV. Miller 

Barooh Marash 

Merrill H. Morris 

Frank Meiner 

Charles Morris 

George H. Meirose 

Russell F. Myers 

James A. Mitchell 

Harry Mallon 

George Matthews 

Jos. T. Mulligan 

Freeman Martin 

Joseph Milata 

Victor Martis 

Geo. E. Mills 

Robert Mitchell 

Steve Mislan 

Jacob Mayesh 

Eugene Masco 

Sylvester March 

Raymond W. Monk 

Edward A. Murray 

Harry Marcus 

John Mourelle 
Koszkok Myerrovics 

Emanuel Mendelsohn 
Behor Meihri 

Dan Mastorious 
Frederick W. Matthies 
John MacMullen, Jr. 
Roy J. MacGee 
George MacDonald 
Robert H. MacCready, Jr. 
George S. Myers 
Garret A. Myers 
Fred C. Myers 
Russell Myers 
James I. Myers 
John J. Mildcnbuigcr 
-Antonio Macake 
Louis G. Metts. 
Stephent^on Moirowsk 
Albert McNichol 
George Walter Miller 
James A. McCormick 
Elmer McGinnis 
Willard F. McMahon 
Lester W. McGinnis 
William McDede 
Clifford McLaughlin 
Howard McCauley 
Frederick C. McMullen 
Joseph A. Massih 
Henry C. McWhorter 
Nicholas McKinney 
John F. McNally 
James F. McElroy 



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Thomas R. McCarthy 
Harold S. McWithey 
Matthew McElhaney 
William J. McDonough 
Harry McCauley 
Harry McCabe 
John C. McCormick 
Raynard D. McCormack 
Edward H. Magsaman 
Cliffoid J. McCormick 
Emil Meyers 
William J. McKeon 
James A. McElroy 
James E. McCourt 
William F. McCloskey 
James McCoi-mick 
John McElhaney 
Elmer H. McGinnis 
Frank Meserole 
William A. Merritt 
John McCarthy 
Clarence McLaughlin 
Frank V. McCarthy 
Edward M. Gay 
William McCabe 
Harwood McCauley 

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J. Nattress 
Arthur E. Nelson 
Frank Nagy 
Leslie Nelson 
John J. Nelson 
John A. Newman 
Gustav Nearling 
Francis G. New 
Louis Nora 
John Nora 

Henry Neyranowski , 
John F. V. Nolan 
Rudolph C. Nordhouse 
Matthew F. Norton 
John Nicholson 
Tony Nacunos 
Nickolas Narazo 
Charles Noble 
John A. Nicholson 
Edward New 
Abraham Nalbandoff 
Alexander Nagy 
Jos. R. Neller 
Harold M. Neely 

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Joseph A. O'Brien 
John Vincent O'Grady 
Jos. T. O'Neil 
Amet Osman 
Lester F. O'Neil 
John Orphan 
Alfio Orlando 



Edward P. Conner 
Thos. H. O'Conner 
Wm. J. O'Conner 
James A. O'Dornell 
Daniel W. O'Connor 
Frederick O'Browsky 
Thomas H. G. O'Connor 
Frederick W. Obrowsky 
William Owens 
Harold E. O'Neill 
Thomas L. O'Neil 
William F. Ochs 
Jos. Orlando 
John Olesnewicz 
Joseph Olah 
Nelson Orpen 
Thomas H. O'Donnell 
Thomas O'Donnell 
Michael J. O'Shea 
Loyal Ives Ownes 
Nelson T. Oram 



Rotert F. Poole 
Charles E. Potts 
Michael Potmas 
Joseph Pentek 
Constanteous Panagskis 
Donofrio Principato 
Gyuseppe Puglisse 
Wallnce Parker 
William Pennick 
John E. Pyatt, Jr. 
Alex Pole 

Basili Papaniklondakis 
Richard Potter 
John Potter 
Otto Pack 
Samuel Perrimo 
Lewis F. Potter 
Isaac R. Parsell 
Raymond Purdy 
Joseph Pocsai 
Frank Pipara 
John Pontello 
Conrad Prefach 
Jacob M. Preger 
J. Harold Potter 
Santo Paladino 
Vendel Pari 
H. C. Potcaik 
Guiseppi Puglisse 
Francesco Premutico 
Ralph S. Payton 
Dudley G. Perrine 
Harry H. Pratt 
Eugene E. Pries 
Clyde F. Putnan 
Chas. W. Pierce 
William Pitzner 
Alanson D. Prentiss 
Leno Perotti 



Russell J. Perry 
John Priolo 
Malcolm S. Pitt 
Milton Pantolis 
John C. Phillips 
Joseph L. Paulda 
William R. Ponton 
H. Griffiths Pai-ker 

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Luciano Quaranto 



Raymond N. Reed 
Albert H. Rusch 
Otto Eauch 
Millard F. Ross, Jr. 
Edward Rosenburg 
Henry Rosenberg 
■ John D. Reebe 
Fred Rusch, Jr. 
Wlademir Radish 
William Rosenboig 
Chas. E. Reed 
Edward Ranson 
Eugent B. Reilly 
Jacob Rhoeder 
Robert Rutherford 
Henry B. Rochesky 
Abraham L. Rosenberg 
George A. Reddells 
Nunzio Rubino 
James R. Reid 
John E. Richter 
Rudolph C. Richter 
John Rosenburg 
Michael F. Rusciano 
Archibald E. Robbins 
Adam F. Ramponi 
Chas. M. Ruck 
MefEord Runyon 
Peter A. Runyon 
Fred Richardson 
James Russo 
Anthony Rasickey 
Mike Robinson 
Louis Ramponia 
Rudolph Richter 
Nicholas Rubet 
Harry A. Richardson 
Gerard H. Rittenhouse 
John Russell 
.\lbert C. Redshaw 
William N. Ramponi 
John W. Rastall 
Harold D. Runyon 
Walter Ruck 
George Rule 
Clarence H. Reed 
Paul L. Robeson 
Joseph Randolph 
Richard A. Rice 



Benj. Rozelman 
Joseph Russo 
Leon A. Rowland 
George B. Rule 
Howard C. Rule, Jr 
Jacob Ratner 
Garrett Ryan 
Thomas P. Rawley 
Anton A. Raven 
Philip Reiley 
Elwood H. Richardson 
Joseph F. Randolph, Jr. 

Warren L. Rolfe 

Alexander Reisfield 

Elmer F. Rose 
John J. iiogusky 

Michael Kita 

Charles L. Reed 

Harry L. Robinson 

John E. Ross 

William Rampone 

Andrew Rayhon 

Wm. M. Regan 

John H. Rowland 

Arnold B. Rosenthal 

Shivler B. Reed 

Hilton S. Read 

Leo J. Rowe 

Frederick F. Richardson 

Henry Rice 

Chas. F. R chter 

Fred Rosenberg 

Arthur J. Rine 

Edward Ramson 

Archibald Redd 



Chester C. Seemann 
William A. Sm th, Jr. 
William Stuait 
James J. Stsudt 
William A. Savage 
Wm. H SmickenVecker 
Lewis R. Stout 
Allen L. Smith 
Frank H. Seatless 
Frank G. Seibel 
George H. Schlosser 
Harry Speinheimer 
Jefferson L. Scanlon 
Paul Schrader 
Robert B. Stone 
Joseph A. Sweeney 
Carmine Sodano 
Charles J. S'everding 
Harry Schwartz 
Leonard A. Sibley 
Robert W. Searle 
Walter H. Smith 
John J. Selesky 
John J. Slavin 
William V. Smith 



Wm. S. Schlosser, jr. 
Harry J. Schroeder 
George D. Siraitsis 
Alex. Samty 
William S. Samuels 
Jacob Scheiner 
Victor Schuster 
Leonard A. Sibley 
Frank S. Sheridan 
James W. Summers 
George A. Sproat 
John A. Sweeney 
Michael Sheer 
William Simon 
Charles S. Smith 
James Smith 
Charles H. Skidmore 
Henry M. Stang 
Stephen J. Stevenson 
Raymond Schanck 
Harry Schwartz 
Edward Slock 
James R. Seymore 
Charles E. Seymore 
Clark Schuyler 
Warren Schuyler 
Frank Slater 
James Stevens 
August Smalley 
John A. Shea 
Otto Seimons 
Thomas H. Sullivan 
Fred W. Schroeder 
Edwin F. Smickenbecke 
Alen L. Smith 
Nick Sevido 
John A. Schaff 
Barton Smith 

George Street 

Nicholas Sarantos 

Nicola Sciacca 

Orville C. Schultz 

Edward A. Spille 

Rudolph Seaker 

Morton B. Smith 

F'rank A. Sweeney 

Henry A. Schilling 

Harry Sehiffner 

Charles Schenck 

Benj. A. Salter 

John Sullivan 

Louis Susen 

John Speak 

Tl-.eo. L Saiunta 

George E. Spille 

Willir.m J. Savage 

Wm. A. Scott 

John Santalucia 

John .\. Sofianos 

George Schmit 

Edward Schumacher 

Howard Stahlin 



Raymond Smith 
Edward Stevens 
Allen A. Sackin 
Robert E. Stevens 
John Sieveiding 
Henry Schipman, Jr. 
Charles Seaker 
Abraham G. Stults 
Frederick Skirt 
Heni-y F. Smith 
Joseph Seaman 
Mike Sabart 
Martin C. Schulster 
Richard Simmons 
Tofik Saloone 
Karry Simmons 
William Schumacher 
Alfred Showell 
Stephen Surkoski 
Sabetay Saltiel 
Edward Savage 
George D. Schumacher 
Chas. . Shiff 
George Silzer 
Douglas G. Smith 
John P. Smith 
A. Stevens 
Elia Sevy 
Robert Stein 
Sidney J. Smith 
Henry J. Spille 
Joseph Spinoski 
Owen K. Swain 
David Servis 
Charles H. Skidmore 
Lewis F. R. Stout 
Albert Stevens 
M. Byron Sinclair 
Alfred Showell 
Geo. R. Stryker 
Frank H. Searles 
Levon Seaboldt 
Anthony F. Silzer 
Joseph A. Schwart 
Louis L. Schwart 
George H. Stillwell 
Harry C. W. Smith 
Mori-is Son don 
Joseph J. Saunar 
Joseph J. Synoti 
Edward J. Stilkes 
Cornelius V. Shine 
James T. Shine 
James J. Stuart 
Daves Schinasi 
Meyer Shapiro 
Charles Smith 
Michael Shapiro 
Victoriano Sandre.« 
George A. Sirontonaki 
Owen J. Susan 
Harold Scott 
Arthur P. Smith 



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George Schnorr 
Joseph Shapiro 
Alex. Smith 
John Schralya 
Clarence A. Summer 
James Sgourakis 
Joseph J. Saunor 
Harry M. Strauss 
Tofik Saloom 
Samuel S. Spear 
James Summer 
William M. Shine 



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Frank Tolan 
John V. Tubek 
Morris Taitasky 
Peter R. Taylor 
Albert W. Tradell 
Benjamin F. Taylor 
James A. Talmadge 
Thomas T. Tobin 
Benjamin H. Tallman 
LeRoy E. Tappen 
John H. Tunison 
Russell Turner 
George Trisyack 
Stephen Toth 
George Tollman 
A. L. William Thompson 
Eugene J. Traves 
Clifford C. Tappen 
Kenneth V. Tappen 
William D. Tallman, Jr. 
Harry Tatarsky 
Percy W. Tallman 
William Teacham 
John L. Thomas 
Geo. J. Thomas 
Andres Troulinos 
Edward Temme 
Hariy A. Thomas 
Lawrence 0. Taylor 
Jacob Tulkowit 
Edward A. Tevlin 
John F. Travers 
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Hugh S. Torbert 
Harry Tniglis 
Lewis Toth 
George Teasdelle 
Lloyd Thomson 
Richard D. Thurston 
Peter M. Thome 
Jacob Tulkpwitz 
Edward A. Tobin 
Frank Tavant 
Frank Triplett 
James Tei-williger 
Russell TlTomas 



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George Talmadge, Jr. 
Frank Taylor 
John Thomson 
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Nicholas Vuthiginakis 
Juliu^ Verge 
Thomas P. Verleny 
ComeHus Vernooy 
Frank J. Voorhees 
L. L. Van Nuis 
George VanDeveer 
John VanDei-veer 
John S. Voorhees 
James Van Pelt 
Leon Van Pelt 
John Voorhees 
Clarence R. Voorhees 
George H. Voorhees 
Sebastian Vitah 
Ernest J. Voorhees 
Raymond A. Voorhees 
Christ. C. Valukis 
Joseph H. Vanderhoef 
Herbert F. R. Van Nuis 
Herman Vetran 
Henry Vogt 
Mike Visnyei 
Carmelo Verducci 
Harold Van Liew 
Erico Valentino 
Leon Van Pelt 
Spencer Vactor 
Rob-^vt L. Voorhees 
Harold W. VanLiew 
Meri-itt A. Vining 
Robert Van Dyke 
Theodore Voorhees 
Charlie Varon 

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Milton B. Williams 
David A. Whitenack 
George H. Wood 
Russell B. Walker 
Robert B. Watson 
Marshall H. Watts 
Dominick Warn 
Willard P. Wilson 



Andrew T. Weingart 
Allen O. Waller 
Stanton K. Wylie 
Richard A. Whitaker 
Charles A. Wisfert 
Charles Wilcox 
Andrew R. Williams 
Harry F. Wilson 
Edward C. White 
William H. Wallace 
Peter N. Warn 
Harry N. Westphal 
Wm. J. White 
Harry W. Winckler 
Theodore Whittaker 
Charles Waelde 
James T. Whalen 
Leslie B. White 
Amilian Wuss 
Arthur D. Walsh 
Louis K. Wilkins 
George W. Wilmot 
James S. Waker 
George B. Wright 
T^awrence Witt, Jr. 
Fred Wittkofsky 
William E. Wittkofsky 
Vincent Walsh 
Elijah Williams 
Adolphus Walker 
Harry Weaver 
Paul I. Wagner 
Morsu Wanukick 



John 1'. White 
Harry F. Wilson 
F. Lamar Watson 
Russell B. Walker 
Edward White 
Patsey L. White 
George H. Weaver 
Joseph Wolsilewski 
Edgar L. Whiting 
Alonzo F. Warren 
William Wortwiek 
Louis K. \\ ilkins 
Robert Wehrfritz 
fisher D. Watson 
Thomas Wozniak 
George J. Walshek 
William Winter 
Lester H. Wolff 
Jacob Weill 
Chas. H. Witt 
Edward Wittkofsky 
John Waelde 
John C. Williams 
Frederick A. Weber 
Thomas J. Whalen 
Frank Williams 
John F. Williams 
Leo Witkowski 
Otto F. Wolff 
John Welch 
Alfred Walker 
Christian J. Weingart 
Paul Weiand 



Henry Wittofsky 
Allen Wolpert 
Joseph Witkowsky 
Raymond White 
Reginald WoUey 
Morris Weiner 
Daniel Webster 
Harry A. Woods 
L"\'ing Warasdorfer 



John A. Young 
George Yauck 
William R. Yetman 
Milton Yetman 
George Z. T. Young 
William H. Yates 
Frank Young 
Thomas Y. Yohe 
Williard G. Yager 
Edward Young 



Joseph E. Zaar 
Ernest Zogg 
Raymond Zdziebtowos 
James F. Zonino 
John H. Zinser 
Frank Zubrytky 
Martin Zimmei-man 
William G. Zuest 
Konstantin Zoricky 



COMMISSIONED MEN 

ARMY 

Major-General 1 

Brigadier-General 1 

Chaplain 1 

Captains 19 

First Lieutenants 29 

Second Lieutenants 42 

NAVY 

Lieutenant Commanders 3 

Lieutenants 3 

Ensigns 8 

Total 107 



SPECIAL WORK 

Red Cross Commissioner 1 

Red Cross Nurses 12 

K. of C. Secretaries 2 

Y. M. C. A. Secretaries 2 

Librarian 1 



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DRAFTED MEN. 
ENLISTED MEN.. 



18 



TOTAL MEN IN SERVICE .1,713 



COMTEMTS 



ADDRESS BY 

Bingham, Amelia 101 

Benson, Mr 81 

Chamberlai.n. Rev. W. 1 82 

Daly, Peter F 44, 52, 70, 79, 82, 82 

DeWitt, Sergeant Major 94 

Donnelly, Major R. P 92 

Farrington, Edw. F 41, 56, 71, 100 

Florence, William E 80 

Johnson, James W 88 

Lonsdale, Herbert P 91 

Mc'Cormack, Chas. A 88 

Morrison, Joh.n J 64 

Morize, Capt. Andre 84 

Mitchell, Col. C. E 79 

Parker, Henry G 70, 77 

Payson, Rev. George H 44 

Putnam. Geo. H 78 

Scott, Dr. Austin 79 

Van Dyke, Dr. Henry 83 

Wall, John P 100 

Walsh, Rev. John F 91 

Age of Registra.nts 50 

Aliens, List of 50 

American War Casualties 149 

American Legion 150 

Armistice, Signing of 60 

B 
Business men who financed advertising 16 

Boys are Home Again 66 

O 

Chovenson rides a plank 117 

Cost of War 150 

Commissioned Me.n 164, 165 

D 
Dix, Men Leave for Camp 52, 54, 55, 57, 58 

Died in the Service 163 

E 

Exemption Board 108 

E, Organization of Co 113 

Exhause, the 154 

F 

Financial Summary 76 

Food Administration 114 

Fuel Administration 115 

Frenchmen Answer Call , 147 

Four Minute Men 156 

G 

Greenleaf, Men leave for Camp 57 

German Press, To ban : 116 



How the War Opened 33 

H. Co. Departs 39 

H Co. Roster 40 

H Co. Farewell Reception 42 

H Co. Home Coming 64 

H Co. History 125 

Home Defence League 110 

I 
Infantry, 311th 123 



K 

K. of C. Campaign 91 

L 
LIBERTY LOANS— 

First 77 

Second 80 

Third 82 

Fourth 83 

Fifth ; 87 

List of Workers, Men 97 

List of Workers, Women 106 

List of Service Men 165 

Local Events 157 

M 

Marconi Station 148 

Me.a Leave for Camp Dix 52, 54, 55, 57, 58 

Men Leave for Camp Greenleaf 57 

Men leave for Camp Slocuni 58 

Men leave for Syracuse 58 

Milita Reserve 112 

Map, War 118 

N 

National Guard Called Out 39 

National Surgical Committee 113 

New Brunswick's Answer to the Call.... 36 
O 

On the Firing Li.ne 144 

P 

Patriotic Force 70 

Proclamations 37, 46, 47 

Permanent Blind Relief 110 

R 

Raritan Arsenal 155 

Registration Days 48, 49, 51 

Red Cross, History 99 

Red Flag Lowered at Stelton 117 

S 

Seventy-eighth Division 119 

Service Men, List of 166 

Service Club 116 

Sodiers' Welfare Committee 75 

V 

United War Drive 93 

W 

War, American Casualties 149 

War, Cost of 150 

War, Rutgers College in the 151 

War, Rutgers Prep School in the 152 

War, High School in the 153 

War, Parocial Schools in the 153 

War, Map 118 

War, Camp Community Service Ill 

War, Women's Work in 105 

War, Savings Stamps 94 

War, Declared 36 

War, How Opened 33 

War Summary 174 

Welcome Home Reception t6 



CORRECTIONS 

Page 38, column 1, line 11 should read 
"A number of others were wounded or 
gassed but NOT so severly as to cause a 
permanent disability." 

Page 106, Line 6, read CRONK for 
COOK. 






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